The days when Jonny Wilkinson was regarded as indispensable to England may have gone, but seldom has the loss of one player had such a profound impact on the course of a match.
Persuade the government to let you build a big bank; take a great deal of risk in that bank (particularly by increasing leverage, i.e., debt relative to equity); pay yourself based on the return on equity, unadjusted for risk; get cash payouts while times are good; and when events turn against you, the central bank can bail you out — and keep you in place because you are regarded as indispensable.
It might even be that he insists that what, at face value, are regarded as indispensable players might have to go if he and Cook are able to do their jobs and move things forward constructively.
The courts, too, have become less sympathetic to those living on pavements, even though they include many of the 90 million or more domestic servants whose services are regarded as indispensable to the better-off.
Not only have they been around a loooong time (in one form or another), they are also regarded as indispensable.
In accordance with international recommendations and practical experience of the authors, these materials were regarded as indispensable to provide adequate patient care.
And if history is any guide, we will gain capacities on dimensions we cannot now imagine but will come to regard as indispensable.
The combination of a particularly hierarchical rough structure and low surface energy is regarded as an indispensable condition when constructing special superhydrophobic and superoleophilic material from the resulting corn straw fiber surface.
Little that has happened since suggests the midfielder has learned a behavioural lesson; he should no longer be regarded as an indispensable Celtic asset.
"It is a measure of how far individual wellbeing is regarded as an indispensable part of community life," Giedion wrote in 1948, identifying two modes of bathing: individual ablutions, conducted in private, and the more collective social activity.
