Qua \Qua\, conj. [L., abl. of qui who.] In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. --London Spectator.
Mr. Davis, who sometimes plays his banjo with a rotating red light on his head, has assembled a talented group of Dixieland musicians, the sine qua non for a revival of the Spike Jones sound.
Mr. Lewis's claim that "active government intervention in the gold markets was a sina qua non of the system's operation" is equally incorrect.
We have developed, 'The leitmotiv of actually existing reality is to be seen in the sine qua non of the acquis communautaire.'
They even steer clear of the word 'party' in describing the groups that support them. Lack of political experience is almost a sine qua non for electoral success in today's Peru.
Once you realize that active government intervention in the gold markets was a sina qua non of the system's operation, gold's intuitive appeal is lost.
She had become, qua subject of study, highly marketable in publishing terms.
Every time you think you have come across the political sine qua non of economic reform, a counter-example pops up to frustrate you.