Sentence examples for outright necessary from inspiring English sources

Retirement was far more desirable -- if not outright necessary -- for older Americans who worked on blast furnaces or in coal mines.

Worse, amid the rash of hair-trigger law-enforcement shootings in the news, is that the Secret Service's initial statement about the incident fell just shy of self-congratulation — they said that "the officers showed tremendous restraint and discipline in dealing with this subject" — when an aggressive response would have been reasonable, if not outright necessary.

In the subsequent elections to Congress Mrs Arroyo's governing coalition appears to have failed to win the outright control necessary to push through her programme of economic reform.

In the presidential contest the FA's candidate, former president Tabaré Vázquez (2005 10), received 47.8% of the vote, just shy of the outright majority necessary to prevent a runoff.

But the balance in the Chamber of Deputies suggests it will not win the necessary outright majority.

A careful reform of the patent system is necessary: outright abolition of patents will not be enough to save cancer patients' lives.

Italy and the eurozone plunged into crisis this week after no one party or alliance emerged from the election with the necessary outright majority in both houses of parliament.

There is a thin line between outright corruption and necessary compromises, but there is a line, and it is faithfully maintained.

Disarmingly, he appreciates Roosevelt "at his best" running rings around adversaries with "a tangled trail of jokes, strained analogies, half-truths and, if necessary, outright falsehoods".

In the years since, Ortega and his wife have steadily consolidated their power, eliminating their opponents through a canny combination of economic co-option and, when necessary, outright repression.

Are we supposed to envision the ECB doing huge purchases of unconventional assets (over and above what it's already doing in the form of lending to banks against sovereign debt and the promise of outright monetary transactions if necessary)?