This was a flexible accommodation to an exigency of this particular colonial situation—in this case, the shortage of women in far-flung Siberian colonies.
The amassing of treasure can no longer be expected; and when extraordinary exigencies require extraordinary expenses, he must necessarily call upon his subjects for an extraordinary aid.
To this end he insisted upon remaining in the vicinity; but the exigencies of the perpetual search for food led them several miles further away during day.
His Prussian majesty had probably, upon that account, thought it reasonable that it should contribute a good deal more towards relieving the exigencies of the state.
With the exception of warm goodwill generated during ceremonial dinners—which, however, was rooted in the exigencies of diplomacy—the book's handling of human difference is not a cheery read.