"Unless the American people rise up to defend this indispensable institution, we could lose marriage in a very short time," Mr. Connor added.
"Minister Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience will provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy," Mr. Geithner said in a statement.
The bigger problem with Wagoner, as the task force saw it, was that his exalted view of General Motors as an indispensable institution made it impossible for him to credibly threaten impending doom.
Bolstered by a big new balance sheet and the outsize ambition of its globe-trotting managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the I.M.F is now presenting itself as the indispensable institution in the sovereign debt crisis.
In modern governance, activist presidents and judges have transformed the once-Congress-centered system; still, as constitutional scholar Louis Fisher notes, Congress remains "the indispensable institution for safeguarding popular, democratic, and constitutional government".
It's their judgment that is really leading the decision". Foundational disciplines: Fields of knowledge that are indispensable to institutions of higher learning.
His evangelical involvement with new art during the first half of the 20th century, combined with his generosity, created what has become through several generations an indispensable American institution.
