"material necessity" is a correct expression that can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to something that is necessary in order to achieve a specific material result, such as money, shelter, clothing, etc. For example, you might say, "In order to provide for my family, I had to take on a second job out of material necessity."
WAS women's behavior the result of conditioning or material necessity?
utopians concentrated on the elmination of material necessity.
"One of the things that's compelling this is absolute material necessity," said Ken Walsh, a professor of criminal justice at San Francisco State University.
Later, while standing in an airport queue with dozens of migrants trying to enter the UK, she thinks to herself: "I'm a fake: a middle-class over-educated Polish girl who is here seduced by the cultural lure of the west, rather than led by material necessity".
She claims that the social is the realm of labor, of biological and material necessity, of the reproduction of our condition of existence.
We explained how the law of universal gravitation, for Kant, possesses precisely this empirical or material necessity in section 3 above: compare note 45 above, together with the paragraph to which it is appended.
Between 1996 and 2006 the number of material necessities in our lives grew substantially.
Individuals outside of the city-state are not self-sufficient, because they depend on the community not only for material necessities but also for education and moral habituation.
She argues that the trillion Internet connected devices expected to exist by 2013 will enable us to return to a "simple life" in which we will be emancipated from many of the supposed material "necessities" of the 20th century industrial era.
After providing for the material necessities of life, technology would free us, increasingly, for better things.
Socialism, in its bare bones definition, every individual entitled to the same material necessities, can be interpreted as a just way to manage a nation.
