How To Use Necessity In A Sentence

  • This meant he could help another child whose parents needed a little extra for some necessity or other.
  • Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison 
  • There is absolutely no necessity for you to be involved.
  • Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
  • At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story. Confession
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  • As each hoplite was unshielded on his right side, he relied on the man next to him for protection, encouraging by necessity a strong sense of unity in battle. Alexander the Great
  • Little protest as to unlawful detention, the necessity of charges, et cetera. THE LAST RAVEN
  • At a preparatory hearing he raised possible defences of duress, necessity and public interest.
  • Someone who writes a literary memoir, for example, is by necessity examining issues of self and identity.
  • We consult to the media about canopy questions, we have a canopy newsletter, we have an email LISTSERV, and so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia. Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy
  • The letter is believed to be the first which appeared signed "ATTICUS," and was written many months before the author became known as Junius, and before any necessity had arisen for the exercise of that habitual caution which he afterwards evinced in the mention of any circumstance at all likely to lead to his detection. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
  • From the philosophical point of view the principles relate to the problem of how to combine necessity and freedom.
  • In many cultures, water is not just a necessity of life, it has a deep spiritual significance, too.
  • If he was Argentinian you'd call him potrero, learning close control and cunning as a necessity. Real Madrid find 'Nemo' to their liking as Mesut Ozil settles in well
  • _They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
  • The necessity that the article imagines to this, feasibility and established means to undertake analytics card.
  • These devices allow one to get detailed and accurate information about a pigeon's homeward track without the necessity of following it.
  • Careful searching of the literature is an absolute necessity in the preparation of any study and solution to problems.
  • The prints made from such a plate are of necessity mirror images of the original drawings.
  • The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
  • The rebus is the bridge from the writing of thoughts to the writing of sounds, and it came into use through the necessity of writing proper names. The Booklover and His Books
  • I bought a candle out of necessity.
  • The necessity of the case demands what you call a strained ideal. The Odd Women
  • You can come early if you want to, but there's no necessity for it.
  • The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertorical as determined by these very laws of the understanding, consequently as affirming a priori, and in this manner it expresses logical necessity. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • This is an example of a necessity in the fabric of space, typical of the necessities which govern motion.
  • But these should occur as a result of tradition or of conscious choice rather than of necessity.
  • Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits.
  • Nowadays saturation campaigns are a necessity to push the product and make sure it scores big on the all-important opening weekend.
  • You can in fact be certain that private capital accumulation is a fundamental necessity in our system, while maintaining that (minor) redistribution is an ongoing requirement. Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • This is the granulated root of the Macacheira plant, the _Jatropha manihot_, which to our palates would seem like desiccated sawdust, although it appears to be a necessity for the In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
  • But the supposed need for an early revolution did persuade many to accept violence as a temporary necessity.
  • From the bottom of his heart, he concurred in the moral necessity of his annihilation.
  • I. iii.156 (129,8) [dwell in my necessity] To _dwell_ seems in this place to mean the same as to _continue_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head. The World of Ice
  • A bummel, the narrator eventually explains, is "a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Government that enforces obedience to regulation in this world of ours is a necessity but also a tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The teacher was laid under the necessity of punishing the student who failed in the examination.
  • And then he watched automation, what we called automation takeover, remove the necessity of work from our well-being. Democracy Now!
  • And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
  • Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
  • Coyote has done an excellent service in detailing the reality of this necessity and you a service in reminding of it. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Looks Very Good
  • In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity. A Miscellany of Men
  • Again this year, Saturday night's Harvey Awards ceremony will be emceed by "PVP" creator Scott Kurtz, who acknowledges the necessity for some event growth -- even as he's a bit nostalgic for an even smaller 'Con. BALTIMORE COMIC-CON: Has it become the supreme antidote to San Diego?
  • Indeed, disaffection and rebellion in Ireland convinced ministers of the necessity of parliamentary union.
  • The prime mover of all generation is said to be the goddess Necessity, who occupies the centre of the universe.
  • Sometimes a phalanstery is a necessity, but it would be hateful, were it the general rule. The Conquest of Bread
  • The report stresses the necessity of eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
  • Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.' Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
  • The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct. 
  • The people then, quite reasonably, expect the state to be able to handle this task - this task which it has created the necessity of - with dispatch.
  • Art was hailed as an inner, ethical necessity, primary nourishment for the soul.
  • Eating is a biological necessity!
  • Acknowledging the necessity to work with others; getting the guts to ask for help in order to preclude slamming one's head against the wall for extended amounts of time; finding two, three or even more ways to tackle a problem, whether it be literally in homework or otherwise in managing life and time; learning many, _many_ subtle things that you certainly won't regret learning as you tackle challenges in the future. Failing Students
  • Inexorably impelled by time, he will, with inavertible necessity, pass through all the stages of human life, from the bottom to the top, from the top to the bottom. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
  • But these should occur as a result of tradition or of conscious choice rather than of necessity.
  • Any attempts to persuade farmers of the necessity of environmental conservation must take all these factors into account.
  • Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
  • The necessity of making a living disentranced him from his gamble.
  • Tom, the poor fellow with the broken leg, was bearing up bravely, and only bemoaned the fact that, if there should be any necessity for the launching of the surfboat he could not do his duty. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
  • Like theoretical reasoning, practical reasoning seeks in a sense to demonstrate the necessity of certain actions.
  • The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
  • These things being premised, I shall now set down and make public that proposal which heretofore I have tendered, as a means to give some light into a way for the profitable and comfortable practice of church government; drawing out of general notions what is practically applicable, so circumstantiated as of necessity it must be. The Sermons of John Owen
  • In 1987, while the FDIC and FSLIC were busy closing every Bank and S&L in Texas, I of necessity made the conversion to Commercial Bankruptcy. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Modest Proposal for Bar Exam Reform:
  • Organizational structure was driven by the necessity of having skilled negotiators in close proximity.
  • Keep in mind, though, that not all entities, according to Aquinas, have an essence, though all, by necessity, have a form.
  • From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
  • But Ensenada is billed as a tourist destination for gringos, and every book on Mexico I've read says almost everyone in Ensenada speaks English by necessity. Low cost lodging in Ensenada?
  • The almost universal desire to possess some kind of armorial insignia, implies a corresponding recognition of the necessity to obtain them from some Institution or Personage, supposed to be competent and authorised both to determine what they should be, and to impart a right to accept and to assume and bear them. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • The prime mover of all generation is said to be the goddess Necessity, who occupies the centre of the universe.
  • The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct. 
  • Chains are a necessity there and Peters is constantly hanging and unhanging it.
  • After more than a decade in which the balanced budget had assumed quasi-religious status, many were suddenly converted to the necessity of a major dose of deficit spending.
  • The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. George Orwell 
  • Organisms living in that environment would, of necessity, be specifically adapted to coping with a very soft, semi-fluid bottom.
  • A car is an absolute necessity if you live in the country.
  • I took the job out of necessity because we had no money left.
  • Contemporary Marxist urban sociology places much less emphasis on the supposed necessity for the state to be engaged in collective consumption.
  • A friend is known in necessity
  • Obviously, in his later years, when he became king, necessity demanded he modify his ways, but as we witness in “Phoenix on the Sword,” the barbarian is always lurking just beneath the surface. The Triumph of Barbarism over Civilization « Gerry Canavan
  • The shape and form of the bungalow constantly underwent change and adaptation out of functional necessity.
  • By the letter of the judges of the circuit court of the United States, held at Boston in June last, and the inclosed application of the underkeeper of the jail at that place, of which copies are herewith transmitted, Congress will perceive the necessity of making a suitable provision for the maintenance of prisoners committed to the jails of the several States under the authority of the United States. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
  • Industrial growth over this period meant that a labouring class became an economic necessity for national wealth. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
  • It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the system, that combined with these principles of self-reliance and perfectibility, Buddhism has incorporated to a certain extent the doctrine of fate or "necessity," under which it demonstrates that adverse events are the general results of _akusala_ or moral demerit in some previous stage of existence. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • But as leaves produce other leaves, from their edges or their surfaces, and as they form buds in the same situations, just as axial organs do, [561] there is surely little ground for considering the placentas, or ovuliferous portions of the plant, to be of necessity axial. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Please observe that your word “applied” is categorically different from “initiat[ed]”, and of conceptual necessity includes both offensive and defensive “appli[cations]”. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Ayn Rand First:(?):
  • Whether you are frugal by choice or by necessity, here are some tips for saving money when money is very tight.
  • Vacations when you have kids are somewhat constrained by necessity.
  • And that this explanation establishes the objective necessity for the overturn of these social relations if human progress is to resume.
  • Democracy, so understood, arises out of mutual need, and finally points to the overarching necessity of a shared sense of democratic caritas, or charity.
  • As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain.
  • But what happens with, erm, that other daily necessity? Times, Sunday Times
  • He felt a great necessity to talk about his problems.
  • Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
  • The supplier incentives are to invent newer, better, more specialized (costly) services and justify each as a "necessity", while the demanders are shielded from the immediate cost effects by the very nature of the insurance (protection against financial loss) - the services and guaranteed payment umbrella propagate the false perception in demanders that health care services are free or of minimal cost. Primary Care Doctors vs. Specialists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The vignette above is an example of the necessity for a new approach in Christian ministries where cultural values and variables must be involved in theologizing and acting as we seek to care, teach and proclaim the Good News.
  • From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
  • He emphasized the necessity of taking strong measures.
  • Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
  • Such an attitude is a powerful weapon in diplomatical and actual warfare, and it must be resorted to, if the necessity arises. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
  • Nevertheless, out of necessity, to help the adviser feel less pressured, some bureaux do run partial appointment systems.
  • We were discussing the necessity of employing more staff.
  • They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
  • So, analogies to ordinary prudentialism fail to capture the decisions and, I think, the opportunities / necessity for empathy informed judgment that a member of the Supreme Courtfaces. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
  • Telephone is now a household necessity.
  • One scholar emphasizes the necessity of developing a code to label research findings during data analysis.
  • The paper analyses the necessity of unified legislation of environment and natural resource protection from two aspects of the theoretical basis and significance.
  • If biology is ruled by contingency rather than necessity then why do we find duplicated designs?
  • The latter half of the book - on the necessity and the nature of missions - is heavier going.
  • When Alvin arrived, he was pressed into rapid service of the sort he was learning of necessity to thrive on.
  • He spoke of the necessity for a reciprocal relationship that would be useful for all sides.
  • He said the only way of achieving the plan would be to identify areas where costs could be cut while ensuring care in areas of clinical necessity.
  • He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
  • Grammatical gender is not a logical necessity in a language.
  • Moreover, the vital role played by the truths given above in all scientific explanation persuaded Kant that a theory of objectivity would also provide an explanation of natural necessity.
  • The constraint of necessity is not sufficient to settle the notion of deductive validity, for the notion of necessity may also be fleshed out in a number of ways. Logical Consequence
  • “It is really a matter of necessity,” said the younger counsellor, retained for her sister; and Jeanie reluctantly followed the macer of the Court to the place appointed. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • The people in the rural areas use mud bricks only as an immediate(sentence dictionary), practical necessity.
  • But as soon as the productiveness of labour reaches the point at which it is sufficient to satisfy also the highest requirements of every worker, the exploitage of man by man not only ceases to be a necessity of civilisation, but becomes an obstacle to further progress by hindering men from making full use of the industrial capacity to which they have attained. Freeland A Social Anticipation
  • Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
  • The relatively continuous use of standard system outputs to determine the necessity for corrective action.
  • After that we investigate the relation of Investigation Department' Performance Evaluation Mechanism and Confession by Torture not only from history to reality but from possibility to necessity.
  • The Society, Mr. Haley, does not find the origin of the state of necessity in the unwillingness of bishops to incardinate its priests; it finds the origin in the state of the Church following the implementation and/or misimplementation of Vatican II. Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009
  • I had a couple of months to spare between jobs so I thought I'd make a virtue of necessity by acquiring a few new skills.
  • a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him; and for his cowardship, ask Fabian. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
  • In particular it highlighted the necessity of delaying decisions about interpretations at the word level, due to ambiguities in labelling and segmenting.
  • They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 6
  • The employment of the bind is a necessity whenever a sound is required to be of a duration which cannot be expressed by any single note, as for example five or seven quavers.
  • He said the alternative to the current excise duty on mineral water would be imposing tax on non-carbonated drinks which unlike water, were not a necessity.
  • Made in a pre-CGI age, it all looks a little ropey, with the fight scenes played for laughs out of necessity.
  • You must understand the necessity of education.
  • To circumvent this difficulty, Hegel reformulates the problem of necessity as pertaining to the structuration of consciousness.
  • Not a word was said to him as to the marmalade for the children which was hidden under the seakale, Lady Lufton feeling well aware that that would find its way to its proper destination without any necessity for his co-operation. Framley Parsonage
  • Hume notes that we cannot imagine or conceive of the negations of typical mathematical theorems, but this seems to be a weak hold on the necessity of mathematics.
  • Help the congregation to understand the necessity to sing with meaning (take breaths at commas, not at the end of musical lines).
  • Such vain ceremony is a thin disguise of rebellion, nor are there perhaps any personal wrongs that can authorize a subject to take arms against his sovereign: but the want of preparation and success may confirm the assurance of the usurper, that this decisive step was the effect of necessity rather than of choice. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud 
  • Those early pictures in the family album showing ladies with hats, veils and scarves and men in dustcoats were not so much fashion statements as a reflection of necessity.
  • It is, however, probable that dietetical considerations may have influenced Moses in his prohibition of swine's flesh: it is generally believed that its use in hot countries is liable to induce cutaneous disorders; hence in a people liable to leprosy the necessity for the observance of a strict rule. Smith's Bible Dictionary
  • In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity. The Revolutionary Novelist
  • Employers have moved diversity from a " nice thing to do " to a business necessity.
  • It's an adventurousness that is partly borne of artistic interest and partly necessity. Times, Sunday Times
  • What if “secondhand,” “used” or “preowned” signified an attractive, desirable option for everyone, rather than a poverty-driven necessity? THE STORY OF STUFF
  • It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
  • There are two infestations that are commonly transmitted in this way although there is no absolute necessity for this mode of transmission.
  • [Be] sly and artful in his behaviour to some, and imperious and cruel to others; being under a kind of necessity to ill-use all the persons of whom he stood in need, when he could not frighten them into compliance, and did not judge it his interest to be useful to them. Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love
  • The best teacher one can have is necessity
  • Planck's theory was suggested by the apparent necessity of modifying the generally accepted theory of statistical equilibrium involving the so called "law of equipartition," enunciated first for gases and extended to liquids and solids. A Librarian's Open Shelf
  • You must understand the necessity of education.
  • Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
  • It followed, that those of the members who enjoyed consequence by means of their station in the ranks of the Vehme, saw the necessity of supporting its terrors by occasional examples of severe punishment; and none could be more readily sacrificed, than an unknown and wandering foreigner. Anne of Geierstein
  • The system of Dr. Smith tended to the production of that natural freedom of trade, each step toward which would have been attended with improvement in the condition of the people, and increase in the _power to trade_, thus affording proof conclusive of the soundness of the doctrine; whereas every step in the direction now known as free trade is attended with deterioration of condition, and _increased necessity_ for trade, with _diminished power_ to trade. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
  • The professional airmanship, attention to detail, and flawless crew coordination were an absolute necessity for the safe recovery of 20 crewmembers and a $300 million national asset.
  • For about the necessity for a religion there was little or no doubt. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
  • On the decani side Patrick Ovens, a red-haired little treble, was kept awake by the necessity for altering _Magnificat_ into _Magnified The Nebuly Coat
  • He cautioned exporters of the necessity to fulfil export orders.
  • But there are other voices whosee this immanent danger andone of them is William Greider, The Nation, who clearly sees a corporate financial coup is underway and the necessity to stop it in its tracks. OpEdNews - Diary: Obama Preparing For New World Order
  • Necessity had forced him to discover more about his flying, once again.
  • By necessity changes will take many years to enact a, id consequently the present system will prevail for some time.
  • In contemplation of the resentment of Hyder, and the progress of his power, the party, the views of which were apt to discord with those of the leading members of the government, had strongly urged upon them the necessity of making preparations against the invasion.
  • Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.
  • The necessity of limiting the influence of the crown and excluding 'placemen' from the House of Commons had been one of the traditional Whig commonplaces, and a little had been done by Burke's act of 1782 towards limiting pensions and abolishing obsolete offices. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
  • Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation!
  • At the heart of the business of being a writer, I assumed - apart from the necessity to earn a living - was an urge to right wrongs, to expose injustice.
  • A divine love which had in it no necessity of hating evil would be profoundly immoral, and would be called devilish more fitly than divine. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
  • The French coast was now blockaded, and to compound the chaos, in August the Convention banned the export of all goods of first necessity and embargoed all neutral ships.
  • Well, then, so far as there is no law, there is the reign of influence; there is party without of necessity _party_ action. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert
  • Let the honest heart shew itself, and reason teach passion to submit to necessity; or, let the dignified pursuit of virtue and knowledge raise the mind above those emotions which rather imbitter than sweeten the cup of life, when they are not restrained within due bounds. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • [Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
  • As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain.
  • In dry climates, necessity has become the mother of invention in garden design.
  • Society nowadays is much more violent than it was 30 years ago and the screens are a modern-day necessity.
  • Of necessity they have been learning on the job, developing ad hoc methods of reading when little or no guidelines were supplied in the discipline's infancy, and extrapolating from what they have gleaned supervising their own students.
  • Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee: yet, for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly, -- thou must think there's a necessity in't, -- and change garments with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot. The Winter's Tale
  • The help and accountability that come from other people is a necessity. Christianity Today
  • Hume notes the criticism that necessity undermines morality since it eliminates moral choice.
  • When the overplus is abused, it is just with God to diminish that which is for necessity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • But since global markets are not static and needs and priorities always shift with time, trade diversification is a foregone necessity for any economy.
  • We have the necessity transform to the validity of invariableness and the validity of restriction in order to avoid the confusion and the content in theoretically overlaps.
  • Is it recognizing the necessity of long-term fiscal sanity by keeping government spending from exceeding income?
  • Among the secret practices of the sorority was a private signal only to be used in times of urgent necessity. The Jolliest School of All
  • Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong. Sydney J. Harris 
  • This was, perhaps, the first time an harangue from the baron had been thought too short; but the surprise of young Lynmere; at the view of his destined bride, made him wish he would speak on, merely to annul any necessity for speaking himself. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • In Buddhist terms this necessity of alternation is called the defilement of apprehending the two truths as if they were different entities. Becoming Enlightened
  • He suggests only that in time, we will become so weary of our punitive politics that the system will, out of necessity, "outgrow" or "outlive" its current fractiousness. Fight Club
  • Our customers are frequently faced with the necessity of deburring and polishing complex-shaped three-dimensional metal surfaces with undercut areas.
  • This is a necessity and you must start doing it now because it is an exam technique.
  • For me, it's so much more of a chore or a necessity than a pleasure.
  • The third-generation junkman has everything arranged in a way that reveals the eye of an artist; wonderful assemblages that combine necessity and art.
  • I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • The belief in the necessity for an all-out offensive has been replaced by much more limited aims. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient. 
  • Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. Victor Hugo 
  • You can come early if you want to, but there's no necessity for it.
  • She was driven by necessity to steal food for her starving children.
  • We're going to focus on the relationship between freedom and necessity.
  • Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night. Famous in Finland, Fixture in France
  • Little protest as to unlawful detention, the necessity of charges, et cetera. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Grammatical gender is not a logical necessity in a language.
  • This procedure would bring the tune to the foreground without the necessity of blaring on the part of the brass.

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