Sentence examples for had been indispensable from inspiring English sources

The generals were denied access to the World Bank and other facilities that they believed had been indispensable to the rise of China and Vietnam.

As George Washington had been indispensable to independence, Abraham Lincoln was indispensable in seeing that independent Union through its existential test.

As a playwright, director, producer, and play doctor, he had been indispensable to the theatre for thirty-one years, a tireless collaborator who reliably helped to mint the only currency Broadway trusts: hits.

Anthony P. O'Brien, 73, said a program for older workers at Central Florida Community College near his Ocala home had been indispensable to allowing him to stay in the work force.

He described the library as "a paradise for scholars," an assessment shared by the historian John Hope Franklin, author of "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans," who said the library's old phone books and newspaper archives from his hometown, Tulsa, Okla., had been indispensable to writing his autobiography.

To those of us who are old enough or who study history, today is that "Day of Infamy" that made us stars of a drama in which we had been indispensable understudies.

Still, Conlon has been indispensable.

His reporting has been indispensable.

FOR Democrats, his work has been indispensable.

It has been indispensable partly because it has remained intimate.

But there's a reason it has been indispensable in French kitchens for centuries.