Ever since, I have struggled to treat my patients in their homes and avoid hospitals except when absolutely necessary.
Though friends describe Mr. Harris and Mr. Kushner as an "electric couple," they avoid public displays of affection except when absolutely necessary, say, during turbulence on an airplane.
While its definition is supposedly neutral, meaning someone who leaves their home country for economic reasons, we now feel that it is sufficiently contentious to cease using it as a descriptive term for the entire crisis except when absolutely necessary.
Except when absolutely necessary, Mr. Garfunkel doesn't risk pushing his voice into the soaring, semi-operatic realm demanded by the climax of a ballad like "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
Californians and Oregonians rejected proposals to require parental notification for young women seeking abortions, and the voters of South Dakota overturned a law, passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor eight months ago, that forbade abortion, including in cases of rape or incest, except when absolutely necessary to save the mother's life.
But then it may have been the incriminating scrap of 1513 that made him think so hard about the rules by which conspirators must proceed: confide in absolutely no one except when absolutely necessary, try to leave no one alive who might be able to take revenge, and, above all, never put anything in writing.
