Mr. Figueroa did not have the intent necessary to violate this law.
But, in "The Prince," Machiavelli assumed that politicians fully understood what was good and what was evil; the survivors among them simply understood when it was necessary to violate their moral code.
The Palin family's press release, congratulating Bristol and welcoming their prospective son-in-law to the family, was a way for the McCain campaign to suggest that the gutter press had so violated this family's privacy with its calumnies that it was necessary to violate the girl's privacy to set the record straight.
"Perhaps, if you reflect," he later wrote in a letter to a critic, "you will agree that it is not desirable to convict people, even though guilty, if to do so it is necessary to violate those rules on which the liberty of all of us depends".
On Friday, the DMHC informed the state's major health insurers by letter that provisions in health plans eliminating coverage of "voluntary" or "elective" abortions, or limiting coverage only to "medically necessary" abortions, violate state law and the state constitution.
We would still be holding everyone accountable, but children would be able to sleep at night during March and April, and teachers wouldn't feel it necessary to violate a basic code of decency.
I could be lying on my couch, minding my own beeswax while wearing a burqa, but if a man with a hard-on and a grudge against the fairer sex deems it necessary to violate my personal space, he will do so, and there is nothing I could do to stop him.
"It proves that President Bush was determined to win by any means necessary, including violating the spirit if not the actual letter of the law.
The agreement angered Israel, and while the pope was in Cairo, Israeli religious leaders said they opposed his plan to hold a Catholic service on a Saturday in Nazareth when he visits Israel next month, suggesting that the necessary security arrangements would violate the Jewish Sabbath.
Maudlin considers the time-scale problem pointed to by other writers, and concludes, contra Dennett, that the extreme slowness of a computational system does not violate any necessary conditions on thinking or consciousness.
