The Bush Administration said that was a necessary price to pay.

History has shown that the use of force is often the necessary price of liberation.

Churchill had anticipated losses and considered them a necessary tactical price.

The prices necessary to accommodate those cost differences became too high to be passed on to car buyers.

He would have to do without his hand, but that seemed a necessary price for his freedom.

"Then it is a sad but necessary price for victory."

Knowing that circumspection and compromise are the necessary price of power doesn't seem to make a difference.

"Knowing that circumspection and compromise are the necessary price of power"

That the country has grown far less free, he implies, is the necessary price.

And in the case of the slaw, it is important to pay the necessary price for a good one.