Sentence examples for is essential to him from inspiring English sources

It is essential to him that they remain identifiable as enemies".

Similarly, an anti-essentialist might say that when a person who is both a mathematician and a cyclist is thought of as a mathematician, being rational is essential to him, while being two-legged is not; but when the very same person is thought of as a cyclist, then although being two-legged is essential to him, being rational is not.

Because this is essential to him, in an earlier segment he turned down a seduction from a beautiful, young, aspiring artist in the kindest way.

Even at that stage he was a uniter - that's essential to him.

But in the years they were together Crouse was essential to him.

Raschka is known mostly for his picture books, but words have been essential to him too, in a minimalist way.

The diplomat despaired of Cameron's approach, of his failure to negotiate when negotiation, compromise and alliance building will be essential to him in the years ahead.

The player shrugs off that comment but it is indisputable that assistance of one sort or another has been essential to him.

Otero-Pailos said it had been essential to him to be able to realise the artwork in the Palace of Westminster itself, a building almost 1,000 years old and which, for centuries, has been a seat of global political power.

His closest friend in Paris, the painter Avigdor Arikha, said "Listening to music was essential to him... we used to listen to music (mainly Beethoven chamber music, Schubert) during the day in my studio... later with Anne [Arikha's wife], always after dinner, it was a ritual.

This is not because Mr. Obama has a great chance at this point of winning them over again – polling suggests no big shift so far from 2010 — but because it will be essential to him to hold down the Republican margin of victory within the group.