Sentence examples for Regrettable necessity from inspiring English sources

FOR most of us, banking is a regrettable necessity.

On the contrary, they declared it was a regrettable necessity that civilians should die.

Abortion was legalized in Japan after World War II; it is viewed, in that country, as a regrettable necessity.

Diane Young, a parts worker for 22 years who went on strike tonight, said the action was a regrettable necessity.

Afghanistan is only nominally led from Kabul, while real power is retained by warlords, a regrettable necessity.

The arrest of thousands of people after the coup is said to have been a regrettable necessity.

But these wars were understood at home as regrettable necessities that must be fought to stop things getting even worse.

However, the definition of marriage is flexible for straight people: the church accepts that divorce and remarriage can be regrettable necessities for heterosexuals, even when they are priests or (occasionally) bishops.

This is not just a regrettable deficit-reducing necessity, but a long-term political project to return us to a pre-second world war dominance of the private realm.

"These planned reductions are regrettable but necessary.

This is regrettable, but necessary.