Freedom of speech is the precondition of other freedoms.
It is the precondition of improved productivity, essential to sustainable growth, improved pay and equality.
Freedom of speech was the precondition of the discovery of truth.
Those who make comprehension the precondition of acceptance destine themselves to unremitting misery.
The precondition of the addictive sensibility is you're alone; it's you and the dope.
It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.
In Northern Ireland, he said, the peace process moved forward only once the precondition of full disarmament was removed.
He worked privately at a solution, by which a papal concordat to ensure at least minimum control of Catholic clergy would be the precondition of Emancipation.
As usually told, the story of the rise of toleration becomes a myth, he writes, "a symbolic story, with heroes and villains and a moral" — the moral being that the precondition of toleration is the triumph of reason over faith.
It may also be an elegy for a time when that was the precondition of success, rather than the size of your wage bill and your access to foreign capital and global markets.
If confirmed, Khatib's success in Cairo also suggests he retains the support of the bulk of his coalition for his offer earlier this month to open talks with the regime without the precondition of Assad's departure.
