Modernist music has lost its claim to historical necessity.

"Let's drink to the sacrifices to historical necessity," he said, looking at Larkin.

Okay in case of historical necessity; remember the Churchill retrospective?

"In order to start this thing you have to feel there's a kind of historical necessity," he said.

In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.

For them, human activity was still subject to certain types of social arrangements that followed a historical necessity.

Marx, for example, put humanity at the mercy of historical and institutional necessity.

Different nations and different systems' existence can be explained mainly because of this historical necessity.

For the euro, because the historical necessity is obvious to us.

Of course, Britain's decision to recruit its private accounting profession in the fight against bank fraud was almost a historical necessity.