necessary acts

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Organizing, marching, boycotting, protesting, singing, demonstrating — all of these, among many others, are true acts of resistance and for Black people, they were and are necessary acts to attain justice and human rights.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023

The work is so planned that, in pursuing it, the child will of necessity have to perform the necessary acts and will thereby gain efficiency.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by Pyle, William Henry

Judging him apart from what he calls his "necessary acts," or his "great deeds," he is a vulgar, commonplace personage, puerile, theatrical, and vain.

From Napoleon the Little by Hugo, Victor

Thus, therefore, they have taught that by the observance of human traditions we cannot merit grace or be justified, and hence we must not think such observances necessary acts of worship.

From The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Melanchthon, Philipp

It traces the necessary acts by which the cognitive consciousness comes to be what it is, both in form and in content.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various