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
As Billy Porter reminds us, queer people of color have been challenging expectations about representation for decades, often as a matter of necessity rather than mere choice.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022
It’s a matter of necessity, says Stephan von Dassel, mayor of Mitte district.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2019
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
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
