Sentence examples for necessary prelude from inspiring English sources

Mere theater was a necessary prelude to redemption.

Defenders of the current strategy will explain Iran's continued defiance as a necessary prelude to concessions.

Alienation, we are reminded by both shows, is often the necessary prelude to invention.

Toppling the Taliban was the necessary prelude to obliterating Osama bin Laden and his fanatic followers.

For many athletes, pain has been a necessary prelude to wisdom.

(My own daughter considers a banana a tiresome but necessary prelude to an ice lolly).

But were the nightmares of depression and war necessary preludes?

The determination of the stoichiometries of its supernumerary subunits and the characterization of the oligomeric state of the purified enzyme are necessary preludes to such experiments, and they are being studied currently.

There's an echo, perhaps, of Dante in Canto 27 of the Purgatorio, encouraged by Virgil to walk through fire as the necessary, cleansing prelude to attaining Paradise and reunion with Beatrice.

Glutathione depletion is a necessary but insufficient prelude to naphthalene cytotoxicity.

The county's sewer plan is regarded by most Malibu residents and officials as far larger than necessary and as a prelude to widespread development.