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matter of necessity



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For Neira, blocking out the larger world at the academy was sometimes a matter of necessity.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

The Home Office and Department for Education had opposed the legal challenge, saying the use of hotels for unaccompanied children was lawful and "a matter of necessity".

From BBC Jul. 27, 2023

For Jean-René Etchegaray, mayor of Bayonne, a quiet and refined city in the French Basque Country, 22 miles from the border, it is a matter of necessity and humanitarian obligation.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2019

Much of that was a matter of necessity in the resource-poor city.

From Washington Post May 3, 2018

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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