The church building, with its triple portal entry by Stanford White grafted onto Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's main structure, was in need of fixing.
There's nothing wrong with Crawford's impulse — her sense that something's in need of fixing.
To take medicine for the lungs is to acknowledge that part of us is in need of fixing; but to take medicine for the brain is to have to face the possibility that "I" am not who I thought I was.
Across the U.S., thousands of bridges are in need of repair, but the money to fix them isn't in the budget.
Everywhere in the world is in need of repair, so fix it.
Consider what the bully is targeting and decide whether it is something in need of fixing or changing.
For the Somalian government, it is another reminder that their financial system is desperately in need of fixing.
"For us to be honest, we have to say that the Medicaid program is … in need of fixing," said Vernita Todd, chief executive of Heart City Health Center, which operates two clinics in Elkhart serving patients who are uninsured or on Medicaid.
I agree that the health care system is desperately in need of fixing, and Mr. Krugman makes good points.
But privately, rangers are deeply concerned about how the potential, expanded presence of firearms in crowded parks will affect human behavior in places where guns, for the most part, have not existed before, and where public and wildlife safety have not heretofore been problems in need of fixing.
Potter fans who have turned the final page and are in need of another fantasy fix could do a lot worse than this - and of course the same goes for devotees of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
