Sentence examples for an unfortunate necessity from inspiring English sources

"It is an unfortunate necessity.

"To begin life once," she might say, "is an unfortunate necessity.

Mr. Uribe wants to double the military's size; intensified war is an unfortunate necessity.

Was contact considered as something desirable in itself or rather as an unfortunate necessity for seeing the sights?

Powerful, secret government agencies have long existed in tension with American democracy, tolerated as an unfortunate necessity in a dangerous world and regarded with distrust.

The family car was broken into several times while parked on the street -- an unfortunate necessity, she said, because all the garages were full.

It presents extradition to the US, and foreign intervention in Colombian political life, as a (perhaps unfortunate) necessity.

As the social historian Lawrence Stone noted, this was a marked departure from the Catholic ideal of chastity, which considered earthly marriage a more or less unfortunate necessity meant to accommodate human weakness; "It is better to marry than to burn," St. Paul had said, but he made it sound like a close call.

In a clunky lamentation on the unfortunate necessity of lowering oneself from the ivory tower to explain one's self or one's work, or even worse, simply engage with the common folk, SA seriously exposes a couple of problems.

Mr. Likins, the president, calls the large lecture class "an unfortunate economic necessity" at a time when the state Legislature has cut funds by more than $50 million over the past several years.

Herbicides and pesticides were discussed along with the unfortunate necessity of using insecticides.