Sidenote: 25] The German Government have, however, sought to justify their severities on the grounds of military necessity, and have excused them as retaliation for cases in which civilians fired on German troops.
Sidenote: 35] The general conclusion is that the burning and destruction of property which took place was only in a very small minority of cases justified by military necessity.
Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.
All instincts of humanity are cynically defied on the specious ground of military necessity.
Bill Sikes may justly claim "military necessity" for his thefts and murders, if Germany can do so for hers.
Sir Lupus,' says Lady Schuyler, 'had it been only a military necessity I should scarcely have accompanied the General and his guests.
I understand perfectly that this visit is not a visit of ceremony from a neighbor, but a military necessity.
My instructions are verbal--my warrant is military necessity.
In this he had the sanction of the military law or the international law, as deception in war is a "military necessity," and allowed by the law and usages of war.
It is a military necessity to have men and money; and we can get neither in sufficient numbers or amounts if we keep from or drive from our lines slaves coming to them.
This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accept the evacuation of Fort Sumter as a military necessity.
It was a military necessity to terrify the peaceful populations with something that was not civilized, something that was hardly human.
I suppose he would be quite puzzled if we said that violating The Hague Conference was "a military necessity" to us; or that the rules of the conference were only a scrap of paper.
This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accept the evacuation of Fort Sumter as a Military necessity.
Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.
When the armed forces of one state obtain authority over territory previously occupied by the other state, the non-combatant population is free from all violence or constraint other than that required by military necessity.
Having shown, that, as a military necessity, and for the sake of that economy which it is our duty to cultivate, Emancipation must be immediate, I need not go further.
Of course, such a word would have been a blast from the war-trumpet, justified as a military necessity, according to examples of history and the heart of man.
It was as a military necessity that I urged these measures; it is as a military necessity that I now uphold them, and insist upon their completest and most generous execution, so that they shall have the largest scope and efficacy.
That the firing was dictated purely by military necessity.
All along he had believed that one of the forts must be held for the purpose of "a clear indication of policy," even if the other should be given up "as a military necessity.
And it is essential that the railroad that serves this peculiarly barren bit of coast within two hours' rail run of the largest city upon the American continent be prepared to serve it well in the case of military necessity.
The men who went before the Congress of the fifties and the sixties and who argued ably and well for the building of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States laid great stress upon this question of military necessity.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "military necessity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
