Both Uses
essential
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Military-Industrial Complex Speech
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- Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.†
*essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage—balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(essential) necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)