Command and Necessity

Command

Command noun - A statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned.

Necessity and command are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Necessity" instead a noun "Command".

Necessity

Necessity noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

Command and necessity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Command" instead a noun "Necessity".

How words are described

human human command human necessity
good good command good necessity
best best command best necessity
similar similar command similar necessity
Other adjectives: simple, actual, absolute, new, immediate, temporary, military, basic, last.

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Mission: Impossible Even Evil Has Standards: Usually averted to underscore how nasty the IMF's opponents are, but "The Train" has Pavel, the deputy who'll take over command of his country when the leader succumbs to heart disease, regret the necessity to execute jailed enemies and wish there was some other way.
  • Stay in the Kitchen There's a little something called the Law of Necessity (Quran 2:173) which provides for life-or-death situations, for example you may eat pork if the other choice is starving to death; by Allah's command, those girls should have been rescued even if they were naked in the shower.
  • Useful Notes / The Napoleonic Wars To be sure, this did in fact occur in battle on multiple occasions, but this was usually due to necessity (the column couldn't reform its formation in time), command incompetence (like at Waterloo), or because the column was ambushed, and was never the preferred method.
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