It has, however, provided many times that percentage for national defense and homeland security, and it would seem that such a biometric ID and system would provide the sine-qua-non for national and homeland defense knowing who is in the country and who is coming and going to and from it. ❋ Curtis Gans (2011)
Mitch Daniels of Indiana, identified the sine-qua-non reform to sustain spending discipline: presidential impoundment power. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)
Or their own armies, sine-qua-non of a sovereign nation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Meanwhile, Israel has refuted the principle of "right of return" in every encounter with the Palestinians since 1988, consistently stating that sustaining its Jewish majority is a sine-qua-non to any agreement. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is the basis of the most fundamental DPM, cell adhesion, which is the sine-qua-non of multicellularity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Small business, the sine-qua-non of capitalism, is squeezed into a declining portion of the economy, only temporarily redeemed by new start-up firms and innovative ventures. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Timing and perception are the sine-qua-non for these people. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
Ten years of the gospel of 'economic growth' and the cheap imported labour that is its sine-qua-non will then be seen for the social and economic disaster that, in reality it is. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The victory the past generations sought in this regard and the success we continue to sue for, are based, as a sine-qua-non, on the emancipation of those who were oppressed, the elimination of the socio-economic disparities based on race, colour and gender and therefore the realisation of the goals of equality among all our national groups and between the genders. ❋ Unknown (1996)
Like bread, it is held as a sort of _sine-qua-non_; like that, it may be made invariably palatable by a little care in a few plain particulars, through neglect of which it often becomes intolerable. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
It was his avowed opinion, that, though the measure, whenever brought forward, should be supported and enforced by the whole weight of the party, they ought never so far to identify or encumber themselves with it, as to make its adoption a sine-qua-non of their acceptance or retention of office. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
But in this hope he was disappointed -- his exclusion from all concern in the new Theatre, (which, it is said, was made a _sine-qua-non_ by all who embarked in it,) was inexorably enforced by Whitbread; and the following letter addressed by him to the latter will show the state of their respective feelings on this point: -- ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
Such a silence just enforces the impression that Clinton is not really capable of behaving honestly, a sine-qua-non for possessing the ability to make a just and durable peace. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Respect for the rule of law in all its ramifications is sine-qua-non to the right against all ills of the society and we dare say that no resort of jack-book tactics in fighting same has ever succeeded in any part of the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He also said that the availability of proper and adequate irrigation facilities is a sine-qua-non of a reliable infrastructure for agriculture. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The triple play (the bundling of of voice, video and data) is becoming a sine-qua-non piece of the carriers’ strategies (for both telcos and MSOs). ❋ Unknown (2004)
A shocker is the [sina] [qua] non for John to emit his [yoghurt truck] ❋ Mihailoff (2005)
