Their support was absolutely essential.
Ms Jowell said it was "absolutely essential that contingency is not translated into costs".
Peter King, a Long Island Republican, contended that the program was "absolutely essential".
It was absolutely essential as King was making the shift northward and into the West".
Speed was absolutely essential if further lives were not to be lost".
Increasing capital borrowing was "absolutely essential", but he chided the UK government for not allowing it more quickly.
But it, too, agreed that it was "absolutely essential" to count every ballot where there was a concern that tabulation machines had failed to detect a presidential vote.
By that stage a win was absolutely essential but as you can see below, Kramnik never really came close in a highly complex battle.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, a Republican, said it was "absolutely essential" that Congress increase spending on children's coverage by $50 billion over the next five years.
"She was absolutely essential in reviving tap," said Brian Seibert, who is writing a comprehensive history of the art form for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
"This administration has failed on so many scores that it was absolutely essential that this take place," she said about the Obama victory and his impending presidency.
