The phrase "alleged need" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a need that is claimed or asserted but not yet proven or confirmed.
Example: "The report highlighted the alleged need for increased funding in the education sector."
Alternatives: "claimed necessity" or "purported requirement".
Rush Limbaugh addresses the (alleged) need for shared sacrifice (listen to clip and read transcript) with a frustrated caller who says he is tired of hearing on TV and on radio shows like Limbaugh's about how cuts need to be made and how we all have to sacrifice, yet there is no sign of any kind of sacrifice from the people making these claims.
Here he argues that what Kant describes as the intellectual "self-incurred minority" (minority in the sense of being a minor, immaturity, tutelage) of the general public, an (alleged) need to be told what to think, is not self-imposed.
"Critics of shale development have frequently alleged that the industry is a 'bubble' about to burst, owing to an alleged need to drill more and more wells to maintain production," wrote Energy in Depth's Dana Bohan.
It is a challenge that goes far beyond the alleged need for greatly expanded presidential power to negotiate tariff reductions.
Indeed, investors' ability to monitor managers and pay them appropriately is one reason for private equity's success.What about the alleged need to be transparent to society?
Sometimes it is unexpected "currents" or the alleged need to buy a new ship's clock that determines the Sincerity's erratic itinerary.
Much existing research (the authors' starting-point) alleges a need for urgency but the claim is not entirely convincing.
So far, only Motorola Mobility has held out against the licence demands, and is fighting a number of long-running court battles with Microsoft in Europe and the US in which it is asserting a number of its standards-essential patents relating to H.264 video decoding and Wi-Fi wireless networking in court cases, alleging Microsoft needs to make substantial payments.
To the Editor: In light of the new combined print and e-book best-seller lists, I wonder if a new category is needed: alleged nonfiction.
XM may be free from U.S. Federal Communications Commission bluenoses, but CBS has to tow the line vis-à-vis alleged "obscenity" and needs the option of cleaned-up episodes.
Prosecutors alleged that Aerometals needed to fill out a form and get authorization to use surplus, and that the men deceived the government.
