Sentence examples for something essential for from inspiring English sources

By bringing this lawsuit, the federal government has done something essential for national cohesion".

Ali Brivanlou, a professor at Rockefeller University, said he could not collaborate with Geron on stem cells because the company's proposed agreement would have severely restricted his ability to talk about his work with colleagues, something essential for scientific progress.

Weismann conceived the idea, arising out of his early observations on the Hydrozoa, that the germ cells of animals contain "something essential for the species, something which must be carefully preserved and passed on from one generation to another".

The true strength of using consensus-building approaches to problem-solving is that it solves problems while strengthening relationships, something essential for any group who must work together over time, tackling one issue or problem after another.

That makes it possible to pass a bill with just 50 senators rather than 60, with the vice president breaking the tie ― something essential for Republicans, because they have only 52 seats and are not trying to pass their bill with Democratic support.

Yet I noted too how, for all that they are gone, something essential of them remains, in my children.

To say that something is essential for something else is typically just to say that the first is necessary for the second.

It also stands, I think, for something essential about poems, which exist, as John Ashbery said, in "a recurring wave of arrival".

Alan speaks for something essential to Eggers — and poignant — in his constant oscillation between the wish to do the right thing and his awareness that he doesn't have a clue what the right thing might be.

But to Seth Goldstein, a technology entrepreneur who was one of the creators of Turntable.fm, last year's hot music start-up, the dance world is missing something essential: an online hub for mainstream fans, gathering news, music and videos from all the corners of the Internet.

As Strether seems determined to notice everything, we learn in a brilliant scene that he has failed to see something essential, that in his hunger for fresh experience, his own innocence has emerged even more strongly.