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In particular, he said, “A constitutional conservatism puts liberty first and teaches the indispensableness of moderation in securing, preserving and extending its blessings.”

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2015

In fact, it may be said that if the encyclopaedic dictionary did not exist it would have to be invented; that its justification is its indispensableness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The wage-worker's demand for an increase is his strike; to be effective it must be backed up by the indispensableness of his services to the employer.

From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by Sullivan, James William

The indispensableness to religion of the imagination is due to that faculty's power of realizing what is not perceptually present.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

"One of the difficulties of the short story, the short story shares with the actual drama, and that is the indispensableness of compression—the need that every sentence shall tell."

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond