But the committee's ranking Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, countered by asserting that more troops were "vitally needed" in Afghanistan and that any delay in ordering more combat forces to the fight would put American lives at risk.
In fact, many remark ruefully that conflict is a "growth industry". Knowing how to negotiate to solve problems, make deals, build consensus, avoid violence, and manage intractable disputes is a competency that is vitally needed in the world.
This will be a perfect setting in which to discuss how to support the work that is so vitally needed to stem the tide of environmental devastation.
Stone's case is that it has been massively misunderstood and misrepresented by a 60s generation of environmentalists: he argues that nuclear is a hugely efficient and relatively clean energy source that is now vitally needed as billions of people in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil are hungry for power.
His job: to make the case that Nabucco is vitally needed to rescue Europe from a crippling dependency on Russia for its energy supply.
The New York region's two largest airports, already choked with crowds and delays, may need to be radically reconfigured so they can make way for vitally needed additional runways that would help accommodate a projected increase of almost 50 million air travelers per year within two or three decades, according to a new study.
A spokesman for Con Edison said that the Astoria plant was vitally needed and that not building it would he "a gamble with the city's power supply". The utility said it had already committed $46‐million of the total $220‐million cost of the plant.
So why not, Chinese leaders have long asked, cross the country with new canals, bringing that "wasted" water to where it is vitally needed for the country's progress?
Does anyone deny that stress can bring on disease, or that stress depletes a patient's energy, which is so vitally needed to fortify him against disease?
This is a clear sign that cost-effective, non-hydrocarbon energy sources are vitally needed in the region.
"This merger will provide tremendous benefits for customers and unleash billions of dollars in badly needed investment, creating many thousands of well-paying jobs that are vitally needed given our weakened economy — a fact that's been recognized by consumers, public officials, and groups of all types.
