under necessity
Example Sentences
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For example, he said a lot of attempts to use necessity had failed because the actions taken under necessity must be the only way to safeguard a state's interests.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2022
But we lie under necessity, which one must beware.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
What I have done you would have done, had you loved as I—had you been under necessity as I. Eros is a great god, but Anangkë, Dame Necessity, is yet mightier.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
I was under necessity, as you shall hear, to visit Chapelizod.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He must not sit in a mosque, except under necessity, but in some open, accessible place.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
