essential element

That essential element of his identity is presented as merely neutral fact, rather than the alienating circumstance it no doubt was.

Or, as Phillips has tactfully described it, “a movie where music is an essential element.”

Instead, it doubled down on the program, asserting that it would be an essential element of any future nuclear deterrent and must continue, even if the funding for other defense programs has to be cut to make way for it.

“It was about stripping people of their humanity. It was an essential element of the dehumanization. Isolation, transport, theft and murder: Those are all interlinked parts of the Holocaust.”

Coal was an essential element in America’s rise as an industrial superpower.