“There was a need for a change after having the same administration in office for several years.”

“He had a need to apologize for his wrongdoings.”

“You were always there for the children in their hour of need.”

“The prevailing opinion is that special training is a needful for a career in either line of endeavor.”

“The messengers will come with you if you have the needful for the ceremony.”

“The argument should be about the needfulness and the efficacy of the specific reforms that the government is carrying out.”

“It is something that exists apart from our desires and apart from our needfulness.”

“In their third encounter, Sarah seeks out Eddie at the bus station cafe and wordlessly communicates her needfulness.”

“The needlessness of the extravagant decorations at the party was evident, as they served no purpose other than to impress.”

“And as Ebraun's buddies probably shared his views on the needlessness of her calling, she was going to feel very out of place.”

“The better it is, the more it reminds me of all that I said above, and the needlessness of it, which invariably fouls my mood for the morning.”

“The abuse of power is rooted in the abusive family member's extreme emotional deprivation and neediness.”

“That reflects their psychological neediness, rather than a criminogenic behavioural pattern.”

“The latter may also attach to his petition a statement from any competent authority attesting his neediness.”