irreplaceability

With the announcement of his impending retirement from the bench, a great many commentators have attempted to articulate both Justice Stevens 'influence on the American judicial landscape and his utter irreplaceability as a justice -- neither of which can be overstated.

Want Another Warren Court? Try Justice Warren 2010

Libraries and museums were asked to put forward documents to be considered for listing, based on their significance, authenticity and irreplaceability.

Peterloo book is one of Unesco's first heritage documents 2010

People who believe that the media landscape is still amenable to a high degree of the kind of commercial support that would keep newspapers alive, look at the irreplaceability of newspapers and think, “We should expend any effort or resources we can to keep ourselves from having to replace them.”

Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

For the rest of the year our focus is on producing; for trying to prove our irreplaceability to others in the hope we can gain or maintain a place.

TEXAS FAITH: Does materialism compromise the holiday season? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

There was no sense, in feminist culture, of the specificity and irreplaceability of the already living individual.

Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child. Ann Althouse 2009

And the more you are convinced, as I am, that this is a fairly significant revolution in media production, the likelier it is that the irreplaceability of newspapers suggests that the next step needs to be vast and varied experimentation, not the transfer of allegiance from one institution to another.

Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

Saxophonist Joshua Redman has written, The magic of the jazz experience is in its irreplaceability.

Javier Vasquez - Jazzamoart 2006

Saxophonist Joshua Redman has written, The magic of the jazz experience is in its irreplaceability.

Javier Vasquez - Jazzamoart 2006

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

Mimi Kennedy: Change, Victory and Discourse 2008

She extended her hand with the imperious manner of someone who'd been at the same job long enough to harbor illusions of irreplaceability.

When The Bough Breaks Kellerman, Jonathan 1985