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The phrase "against necessity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a situation or action that is contrary to what is required or essential.
Example: "He acted against necessity when he chose to ignore the warning signs."
Alternatives: "contrary to necessity" or "in defiance of necessity".
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When a rhyme surprises and extends the fixed relations between words, that in itself protests against necessity.
Effortlessly switching between continents and maintaining authenticity in each, he ramps up the tension as morality is pitted against necessity with quick yet fateful choices being made.
Most of her fellow cast members in "Finian's Rainbow" know enough about Ms. White's trials that when she sings, "There ought to be a law against necessity," they sing back, with particular feeling, "Sister, you're so right".
Russell was dissatisfied with the prevailing conceptions of necessity and possibility among philosophers of his day, and argued instead against necessity (or possibility) as a fundamental or irreducible concept (see NP passim).
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Smith and Hayek resorted to the idea of a spontaneous order not to argue against the necessity of government, but to argue against mercantilism and the micromanagement of the economy, and to remind us that the patterns of behaviour that arise from the rules we impose through legislation often fail to match our best-laid plans.
The success of such imagined, unvisitable worlds might argue against the necessity of first-hand experience.
By bungling federal programs, the administration is more readily able to argue against the necessity of those programs and then to chop their budgets.
No decent person could argue against this necessity; on the other hand, no decent writer should have to repeat variants of the line "Tell everyone what happened here" 12 times in two pages of a scene at Auschwitz; it takes on the robotic affect of the People's Microphone at an Occupy rally, and it loses force with each use.
But analysts at the I.M.F. and elsewhere caution that the process of withdrawing such life-support measures will have to balance the need for continued support carefully against the necessity of weaning their economies off such props before inflation and budget pressures build up.
However, it may not be an argument against Ought Necessity.
In the future, adequately powered randomized controlled studies may provide compelling data for or against the necessity for prophylactic antibiotic use for oral lacerations.
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