It's a university system that is indispensable but unaffordable.
In short, we're still indispensable, but the problems are much more intractable.
To maintain general support for the project, firefighting is indispensable, but not sufficient.
The Methodist Church, like most mainline churches, considers scripture indispensable, but not infallible.
A UN refugee agency remains indispensable but donor states should be asking for an updated model.
At the start of the twentieth century, another indispensable but unmanageably costly sector was strangling the country: agriculture.
Right now fiscal activism is indispensable, but the consequences will be bigger and longer-lasting than many realise.
To some people they are indispensable, but for everyday use they are too right-brainy for me.
Cameron regards banking union and a commitment to share debts between eurozone countries as indispensable, but possibly politically unobtainable.
Husserl himself believed that such studies require a previous suspension of belief ("epochē") in the reality of these phenomena, whereas others consider it not indispensable but helpful.
Its resources — a top-flight newsroom of more than 1,000 people — make its journalism indispensable, but that is often accompanied by self-satisfaction.
