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
Figuring out what to bring was a matter of necessity and a surrender to the fact that the pieces of the lives they built couldn’t fit in a backpack.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022
It’s a matter of necessity, says Stephan von Dassel, mayor of Mitte district.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2019
His cordial ties with Iran are a matter of necessity because the two countries share the giant gas field that is the source of Qatar’s wealth.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 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
