precondition

Rather than worrying about what Trump might do in office, they said, “a precondition for Trump to take European defence seriously is for Europe to take its own defence seriously.”

The chief justice does not appear to worry about public faith in the court as a good in itself worth preserving, but as a precondition to achieving his agenda.

He argued that the RSF should first evacuate its forces from civilian neighbourhoods - essentially demanding their withdrawal from the territories they had captured - as a precondition for talking.

It turns out that his return to the White House was not a precondition for wrangling Gershkovich and others—including Paul Whelan, who was arrested in 2018—out of their Russian hellholes.

He didn’t even demand a Taliban cease-fire as a precondition, as State Department specialists had urged.