Sentence examples for indispensable instruments from inspiring English sources

The electorate's increasing dependence on television, radio and other mass media for news and information has made these expensive modes of communication indispensable instruments of effective political speech.

"They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilisation; but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole".

The ECB must be backstopped by a European fiscal authority with several indispensable instruments: the ability to issue European treasury bonds and raise federal taxes, and the capacity for decisive action at the European level.

For now, at this stage of Wittgenstein's development, where the complexity-accepting stance of the later Philosophical Investigations (1958) and other work is unearthing and uprooting the philosophical presuppositions of the simplification-seeking earlier work, examples themselves have priority as indispensable instruments in the struggle to free ourselves of misconception in the aesthetic realm.

The debate between Rawls and his cosmopolitan critics points to the issue of the proper role and status of states: are they indispensable instruments in the pursuit of justice (ideally embodying the principle of the democratic self-determination of peoples), or are they rather inimical to it, because they entrench state interests at the expense of individuals in need?

President Eisenhower's statement that "[c]orporations are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization; I believe that they shall act for the interest of the community as a whole," could easily be a motto for Ms. De Sisto and Bank of America.

And the piano's singular ability to create the illusion of larger instrumental ensembles quickly made it the most indispensable instrument of accompaniment.

Out of these experiments, in 1930, came the dial-detector, an indispensable instrument for tapping wires in a city where few numbers are now called orally.

The noted physicist Lord Kelvin wasn't exaggerating when he wrote, in 1867: "Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics".

For both, a free press is an indispensable instrument.

The notion of a truth value is an indispensable instrument of realistic, model-theoretic approaches to semantics.