In Nassau and Suffolk, students worked not so much from necessity as from the desire to afford trendy clothes, cash to go out on dates, cars and other luxuries.
He's hard on both groups, but underneath the curmudgeonly rhetoric he is desperate to remind them of why real learning and teaching aren't so much luxuries as necessities.
While just a few years ago, synthetic biology was seen as an avant-garde concept, its ideas and methods have now largely entered the mainstream of molecular biology and genetic engineering, so much so that the necessity for its ambitious engineering metaphors is already being debated [ 9,10].
Patience with horses, as Sir Michael Stoute knows, is not so much a virtue as a necessity.
At the time, using cheap materials wasn't so much a choice but a necessity.
As the ball hit the net on Sunday night, Valencia climbed into a Champions League place – not so much a target as a necessity for a club in crisis – and Villa racked up his 150th league goal, his 22nd this season.
In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech four-and-half years ago, when the United States was still fighting George W Bush's battles against al-Qaida, Barack Obama spoke not so much about peace as the necessity of sometimes going to war.
Not so much an accessory as a necessity for the man who stubbornly refuses to ask for directions, these cuff links in sterling silver mount a pair of actual working compasses.
I started singing out of necessity, not so much because I thought I had a good voice.
Christoffer doesn't really lose his humanity so much as ignore it out of necessity.
