Certainly, Flood Wall Street illuminates the obstacles facing the necessity defense as a legal tactic.
The paper industry is facing the necessity of improving process efficiency, especially in terms of energy and raw materials consumption.
All three emerging economies face the necessity to promote electricity from renewable energies while keeping electricity prices low.
Enterprises face the necessity and the challenge of implementing strategies to reduce their supply chain environmental impact in order to remain competitive.
"A number of [food] companies are facing the necessity to reduce salt or sugar or fat," says Charles Spence, professor of experimental psychology at Oxford University.
If other remedies were unworkable, "The state should face the necessity of actually taking over, owning, and managing directly" all "industries in which it is impossible to maintain effectively competitive conditions".
But, whether or not they have the time or the money, those who face the necessity of long-distance caretaking find themselves coping with situations that have few precedents.
All at once, there was talk of drastic measures; the Times columnist Anthony Lewis noted that "even Congress, which so often rolls on its back like a spaniel, is beginning to face the necessity of impeachment".
In a country where mobility is everything, and mass transport leaves much to be desired, there are an amazing number of men and women who have never learned how to drive and never intend to, or who have been forced to drive for a brief period and washed their hands of it as soon as they could, or who have never driven and now face the necessity of doing so, and hate the idea.
But some political experts say it could be a liberating development for Mr. Dole as he faces the political necessity of shifting from being a Reagan loyalist as majority leader to being his own man as a Presidential candidate.
