"Winning the public-relations battle is almost as vital as military victory," said the Sunday Times.
After all, for people here the Internet is almost as vital as running water; it is used routinely to vote, file their taxes, and, with their cellphones, to shop or pay for parking.
An odd idea when you consider that most of his potential electorate now lives in that sprawl, and seem to like it; and a dangerous one, once you acknowledge that sprawl is now the home of almost everything that is most vital and daring, if not most beautiful, in America.
The adult is almost there but vital things are missing.
Toronto is almost a living character, vital, full of frenetic energy, always expanding outwards and upwards and eating up its own history in the process.
On RB4's Strat, this button is almost directly beneath the vital strum bar, meaning that if you're building up a head of steam, riffing wildly, it's incredibly easy to nudge it unlike the Options button beside it, it has no shielding and interrupt the song.
It is almost impossible to overstate the vital role that Nintendo's Wii console has played in rescuing video games from the cultural sidelines.
It threatens to turn Venice into a museum city a glorious spectacle whose architectural and artistic heritage is preserved, as it should be, but whose daily life is almost a parody of the vital unity of commerce, piety, politics, and ritual that was the pride of la serenissima.
This vital information is almost never reported by the MSM.
