There is usually no fundamental shift in the structure of power, and the leaders of these types of coups generally portray their actions as a temporary and unfortunate necessity.

Still this is something to be watched, since revolutionary movements have the unfortunate habit of elevating temporary necessities into patriotic virtues - plumbers are more valuable than poets.

I would dislike to find such an arrangement a temporary necessity.

Halliday was a temporary necessity.

She accepts this as a temporary necessity, but remains unhappy nonetheless.

Generally, the leaders portray their actions as a temporary and unfortunate necessity.

I don't suppose she quite understood how temporary the necessity was, and how impossible it would have been to leave Cullingworth in the lurch.

"Unfortunately, I think profiling has to happen," Ms. Yost said, viewing it as a temporary necessity she thinks does not signal a general crimping of civil rights.

This lab is a temporary necessity, to identify those foods and animals we can safely eat, and to treat our people medically while we're adjusting to Greentrees.