Good governance is an important precondition for success of government but it is not sufficient. Economic growth is necessary.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.
To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
There is no doing in the world without being first.
The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Reliability is the precondition for trust.