Uzbekistan doesn't mind contributing military units to the rapid-reaction force "but does not consider it necessary for the moment" to attach emergency responders, drug-control forces and other special services, organization spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Interfax.

CNN: Post-Soviet nations to form military force

But I also know we are at a moment where it is absolutely necessary for us to get beyond those old debates.

WHITEHOUSE: Boosting American Exports

"It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth, but at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe, " he said.

CNN: Obama calls for 'dramatic action'

Doing so served to postpone, but did not prevent, the coup that Gorbachev at an earlier moment had accepted as a necessary contingency.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Freedom Flame 2013

The truth is that the people of Galina had no idea what they were witnessing, but with that ignorance they crutched their way over to something, a necessary something that justified a shared moment in a time that was otherwise completely inexplicable a tiger that seemed to come from nowhere, a valiant but dead blacksmith, a vanished butcher, a war delayed by the weather.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife