How to Use necessary condition in a Sentence

necessary condition

noun
  • 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
  • In this sense, colonial logic about Ukraine was a necessary condition for the Holocaust.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But if minority views are put on trial, what would the minimal necessary conditions be to achieve a ceasefire?
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Eye contact between musicians isn’t a necessary condition for great music.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 June 2022
  • A student who is an athlete may or may not be paid through the injunctive relief, but being an athlete is a necessary condition for sharing in the revenue.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In their own words, though, their expression represents a sufficient condition but not a necessary condition.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Good motility is a necessary condition for fertilizing a female egg.
    — Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Building height is a necessary condition for creating density on a project site, and density does mean that more people can share the same costs of construction in the form of rent.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Wurman said the status of a parent under the protection of the nation is a necessary condition to citizenship.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 opinion that sobriety is a necessary condition for consent was by no means marginal in the early 2000s.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Acknowledging brokenness is a necessary condition for a genuine fix.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Obviously the main necessary condition is actually to keep plugging away.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My view is that sentience, or the ability to suffer, would be a sufficient condition, but not a necessary condition, for an AI system to have moral status.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • The independence of the Fed was seen as a necessary condition for the economic prosperity of the United States.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The most important thing is to create the necessary conditions for continuing negotiations.
    — Fortune, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Our counterattack on our enemies in Iran’s axis of evil is a necessary condition for securing our future and securing our security.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The framers became convinced that contractual stability was a necessary condition of prosperity.
    — James W. Ely Jr. and, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Policies must be designed to provide opportunities for and mitigate barriers to wealth accumulation, which are necessary conditions for narrowing the wealth gap.
    — Noreen Sugrue, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

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