Sentence examples for is almost essential from inspiring English sources
In fact, a Southern-style summer of hot days and warm nights is almost essential for success.
The salsa is almost essential to create a perfect balance, but if you don't have time to make it, serve the nests with a lemon wedge instead, though it won't be the same.
"That business experience is almost essential," said Mary Sue Coleman, the Michigan president, who said she also hired Brandon because he had strong ties to the university, having played football for the Wolverines and served as a university regent.
A victory in Ohio is almost essential for Mr. Santorum, who has said he can beat President Obama in the fall because he can appeal to blue-collar voters in similar swing states.
At Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night — his first headlining show there, and a sellout — he teased the crowd with flashes of direct emotional manipulation, the sort adults would blanch at but is almost essential to ensnare their children.
Michigan is almost essential for a Democrat to win; Florida is less central to the Democratic calculus, although polls suggest that Mrs. Clinton is ahead of Senator John McCain there now (who knows if that would be the case in November, but it's a tempting bit of agitprop to toss out there).
I think it's almost essential".
Techniques that might be unacceptable in the general-purpose world can be almost essential in the embedded world, in which a product may be of no use if it cannot meet a speed or power requirement.
Most pre-war officers came from families with military connections, the gentry or the peerage; a public school education was almost essential.
