How to Use necessary condition in a Sentence

necessary condition

noun
  • In this sense, colonial logic about Ukraine was a necessary condition for the Holocaust.
    Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Or is hope a necessary condition for progress, a way of motivating us to strive for better?
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • But economic freedom is a necessary condition for freedom of the press.
    Kevin Brookes, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • This move will keep Japanese and American warships from getting close to the islands, a necessary condition in case China wants to land troops.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2013
  • This video explains the necessary conditions for forming a hurricane and why that makes them more likely in August and September in a narrow band of the Atlantic ocean.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Its light is to the visible world what goodness is to the world of pure knowledge: an illuminating presence, a necessary condition for truth.
    Suzannah Showler, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • More important, Mill maintains that the prevention of harm is a necessary condition of restraint, but not a sufficient one.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Organizers announced the Montreal leg of the tour will not take place this season because necessary conditions were not put in place in a timely manner.
    Ben Church, CNN, 26 July 2019
  • Fahrenheit – a necessary condition for their emergence – the largely harmless bugs took to city streets, sides of buildings, chainlink fences and parks after 17 years underground.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 May 2021
  • King’s assassination provided the necessary conditions for hip-hop to spring forth from the blood of generations that had spilled in street after street.
    Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
  • As such, missions destined for places like Mars are subject to more stringent sterilization processes than missions to the Moon, which has few of the necessary conditions for life and isn’t at risk of contamination.
    Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Because the United States is Mexico’s largest trading partner and both countries’ economies are closely intertwined, yielding can seem like less of a moral predicament than a necessary condition.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Moving to a city can be the first step towards the realization of one’s full potential, and a necessary condition to gain access to communities with similar interests and values.
    Andrea Mechelli, Quartz, 26 Dec. 2019
  • An absolutist might say, for example, that getting a conservative court appointment was a necessary condition to vote for Trump.
    William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
  • In their own words, though, their expression represents a sufficient condition but not a necessary condition.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Weak gravity might be one such property — a necessary condition for quantum gravity’s consistency that spills out and affects the world beyond black holes.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2017
  • Marlinspike defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal’s widespread adoption, and for its ease of use.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Boomsma believes that social animals cooperate to raise their relatives' offspring as a roundabout way to pass on the family genes, but argues that monogomy is a necessary condition for this to work.
    Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
  • Eye contact between musicians isn’t a necessary condition for great music.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 June 2022
  • On that point, if security is a necessary condition of reform, criminal justice reformers should be very worried.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The two had planned to create a joint venture by April 24, but the deadline passed without Embraer satisfying the necessary conditions, according to Boeing, which declined to go into details about the specific unmet conditions.
    Shannon Liao, CNN, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Putting aside the specifics of this particular petition, the ruling was possible in part because a necessary condition of a constitutional separation of mandate had been met.
    Ken Opalo, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Good motility is a necessary condition for fertilizing a female egg.
    Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The time for student loan reform is now Honest accounting is a necessary condition for the competent operation of any government program, let alone a $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio.
    Preston Cooper, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Hitler’s decision to invade Russia is always cited as a crucial factor in his downfall, but the entry of America into the war was another necessary condition for Allied victory.
    Jonathan Kirsch, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • The necessary conditions have been created for putting an end to the fratricidal war in Syria, completely destroying terrorists and allowing Syrians to return to peaceful life.
    Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Obviously the main necessary condition is actually to keep plugging away.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
  • Acknowledging brokenness is a necessary condition for a genuine fix.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • For them authority is not a necessary condition for civilization but a kind of accidental inheritance, a purely private possession that has fallen into their laps like a sack of bullion tossed by a fleeing bank robber.
    Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 26 June 2020
  • The most important thing is to create the necessary conditions for continuing negotiations.
    Fortune, 29 Aug. 2019

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