Listening to what you need to write is a necessary skill for a writer.
Positive spin, a necessary skill for reframing many of the sometimes dismal interactions around building success, is the highest good.
It burned down in the fires; now its students lead the nation in disaster reliance, a sadly necessary skill for children living in Australia's changing climate.
With the recession forcing us to make do with what we have, being resourceful is now a necessary skill for today's generation of leaders.
The sport developed from the riding of rapids in small boats and rafts, a necessary skill for explorers, hunters, and fishermen.
Phonological knowledge is a necessary skill for learning to read, but the process of learning to read can facilitate the development of this knowledge.
It's a bit of both – identifying a negotiator's BATNA is a necessary skill for developing the best strategies to use at the bargaining table.
Voters invariably tell pollsters they do not like tough campaign tactics, but as Mr. Bradley learned in Iowa, fighting back is a necessary skill for anyone who aspires to the White House.
"As the world becomes increasingly digital, coding is going to become a necessary skill for more and more jobs," said Amelia Humfress, founder of company Steer, which ran the workshop.
They also suggested that the pairing of digital field methods with virtual 3-D representation has become a necessary skill for many academics as well as professionals in the geosciences.
And where Seliger had intensive techno-pop aerobics workouts, Anti-Seliger had Pavel Boloyangov, a world champion mixed-martial-arts fighter, who gave a master class in self-defense — a necessary skill for activists and journalists whose colleagues have been beaten or killed for their work.
