necessary condition

In mathematics , a condition that must be satisfied for a statement to be true, but that does not in and of itself make it true. For example, a necessary condition to become president of the United States is that a candidate be over thirty-five years of age, but just being over thirty-five does not make one president.

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The Marines were the necessary condition for whatever success occurred in Garmser.

Wasn't more debt at cheaper rates the necessary condition for the mortgage crisis?

For these races the first and really the only necessary condition is a large and level piece of ground.

First of all it must secure liberty; not that liberty is an end in itself, but because it is the necessary condition of morality.

It distinguishes for me the necessary condition with a sufficient condition, the union is necessary, but not sufficient.

I sincerely rejoice in the step you have taken; it is an absolutely necessary condition for any true development of your nature.

They actually presuppose its existence in the Church as the necessary condition of their own existence.

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