exigences
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This may be fully allowed, yet it does not meet the exigences of the case.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
Although we had been for many years on the verge of war, we had done comparatively nothing to meet its exigences, but stood and stupidly gazed into its fearful abyss.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
Then, to meet the exigences of his case, in opposition to Christianity in the Roman Empire, he made the ecclesiastical hierarchies in union with the civil government the medium of his rule.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
N.B.—The exigences of the Drama are responsible for his making his appearance here, instead of waiting, as is more usual, at the church.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
The first impulse was to fly from the scene; but I could not be long insensible to the exigences of the moment.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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