matter of necessity
Example Sentences
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It was a matter of necessity, but he found that he was able to enrich the soil through his use of diverse cover crops.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023
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
