Collocations withnecessity
These are words often used in combination withnecessity.
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absolute necessity
Demonstration of any expressive vocabulary would indicate that overt production is not an absolute necessity for some expressive vocabulary growth to occur.
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basic necessity
I should have thought that an adequate and complete filing system was a basic necessity.
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dire necessity
Coresidence of the aged with their children in the nineteenth century was not merely a form of old-age support, resorted to only in cases of dire necessity.
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economic necessity
They did not wish to compete politically with men but were forced into the job market by economic necessity.
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financial necessity
Fathers were less available for participation as they remained working during the child's illness due to financial necessity.
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historical necessity
Only in retrospect did another view dawn on him - one that could reconcile his most unreconciled ending as historical necessity.
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logical necessity
If something exists as a matter of logical necessity, it cannot fail to exist without the laws of logic being violated.
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matter of necessity
Like the dog who has rightness of will naturally, the angel who wills rightly as a matter of necessity is neither just nor unjust.
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medical necessity
In this second scheme, the key to medical necessity is not the amount of suffering caused by a condition, but rather its medical etiology.
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military necessity
He argues that soldiers' patient rights are sometimes abridged and yield to military necessity.
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practical necessity
But something more than practical necessity was at stake in these prescriptions.
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sheer necessity
Only anthropomorphism can admit the second term of the dilemma and therefore, from sheer necessity, we must keep to the first.
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strategic necessity
We are out of the strategic necessity and talking of the category business, and this is the defining of the category.
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unfortunate necessity
The banning of private cars in certain areas is an unfortunate necessity.
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urgent necessity
To restore social hierarchy, a noble elite was therefore an urgent necessity.
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vital necessity
Disillusionment persuaded him to acknowledge the vital necessity of separating state from religion.
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