matter of necessity
Example Sentences
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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
Now that he was running for Senate, such contrition was a matter of necessity.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2020
It’s really been a great experience because it’s just been a matter of necessity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2015
Essay writing has been for me a matter of necessity and, in some ways, therapy.
From Salon • Jul. 28, 2015
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
