Sentence examples for not at all essential from inspiring English sources

"Two Hundred Years Together" seems anomalous, not at all essential.

Soon after, the newspaper published a seemingly tongue-in-cheek response signed "publisher" declaring it evident that such propositions could only emanate from "Wall Street or some business which is not at all essential to the public".

This does not at all mean that essential alliances between the U.S. and Korea, Japan and Australia, or strategic partnerships with countries like India, should be downgraded.

Scientists were asked about the likely damage to property, likely loss of life without evacuation ("extremely unlikely" to "extremely likely"), need to evacuate temporarily or permanently ("not at all necessary" to "essential"), and the effectiveness of current warning plans and current evacuation plans ("extremely ineffective" to "extremely effective").

The experts were asked to rate on a 10-point Likert scale (1 = not at all important, 10 = essential) the importance of each factor for, respectively, the adoption, implementation, and continuation of PA interventions in PHC.

Initially Mr. Hytner, the director, did not think the helicopter was at all essential, though he now says he is glad it is there.

We had a long drive ahead of us, so it seemed essential, and not at all excessive, that we both have dessert.

The retailers have milked these to perfection.Yet stripping Christmas to its essential, commercial form is not at all to be sniffed at.

Suppose a part gets added to a system merely because the part improves the system's performance; the part is not, at this stage, essential for function.

Pope and Emperor did not, at first, see essential divisions between Christians: they saw an external threat to a universal Church.

The blackness in her portraits is not blackness at all, in an essential, finite way.