It discouraged communication with what the UN considered to be a bunch of regrettably necessary anarchists.

The Watch, in other words, was a regrettably necessary sub-set of the criminal classes, a section of the population informally defined by Lord de Worde as anyone with less than a thousand dollars a year.

Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient, a regrettably necessary short-term tactic.

He was telling me quite simply that it was regrettably necessary to kill me off and that I was expected to feel consoled to know that at least Xingyu Baibing would reach Beijing, and he seemed surprised that I wasn't totally ecstatic about the idea.

There'd been no obvious sign of Link's change of status, from warmly-approved guest to somebody it seemed regrettably necessary to hang, but after Harl's decision his followers had matter-of-factly taken measures to prevent his escape.

In what he called a "gut-wrenching but regrettably necessary decision," Mayor Maynard Jackson said today that he would not seek election this year to a fourth term.

First and foremost, there is the risk of civil rights being compromised in the regrettably necessary fight against terrorism.

Both men complained about the weariness and nervous strain brought on by this regrettably necessary means of travel.