The phrase "a need to overcome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing challenges or obstacles that require effort or determination to surpass.
Example: "In order to achieve our goals, there is a need to overcome various challenges that we face."
Alternatives: "a necessity to conquer" or "an urge to surpass".
Thus, there is a need to overcome remaining hurdles in folate biofortification.
However, there is a need to overcome the present challenge of developing alternative technologies for organic horticulture.
He seems overly deterministic, too, in viewing Houdini's incessant search for new wonders as driven solely by a need to overcome -- while preserving -- his lowly beginnings.
Thus, there is a need to overcome these shortcomings of limited supply and donor site morbidity in the current surgical management/reconstruction of oral mucosa defects.
Contrastingly, research on factors influencing the future likelihood of having cosmetic surgery is still sparse, and there is a need to overcome this deficiency in the literature because of the general interest in cosmetic surgery among women and men (Frederick et al. 2007; Sarwer et al. 2005).
So, many people simply avoid doing it and don't actually feel a need to overcome this fear unless forced into it by a job assignment that demands it, or perhaps a desire to promote a particular cause.
The Chainsmokers seem to have a Donald Trump-esque need to overcome perceived slights.
There is a real need to overcome our aversions to empathising with others.
Therefore, there is an urgent need to overcome this phenomenon through the use of efficient, cheap methods.
However, there is an increasing need to overcome the buildingcentric approach of these systems, in order to further exploit their innovate potential for sustainable building practices.
Born with the rare Mars retrograde, he entered life with a rage -- a deep, inner need to overcome (the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also had the Mars retrograde).
