"claim the need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to express the idea that someone is making a statement or argument about the necessity of something. Example: The speaker claimed the need for stricter laws to protect the environment.
Many are too happy to claim the need for funding without being able to show the results they achieve.
Both the political left and right now claim the need to do something about it as a matter of urgency.
It's hard to claim the need to protect your privacy when you're spending as much time doing television interviews as Ms. Rice has recently.
Iceland is not the only transgressor: Norway openly breaches the moratorium, while Japanese scientists claim the need to kill quite a few whales.Environmentalists argue that both species are scarce, and the fin whale officially endangered.
A ruinously expensive diversion from defence priorities would be one thing, but Trident's retention or replacement continues with a policy that leads other states, friendly or otherwise, to claim the need for a "minimum nuclear deterrent" of their own.
Anyway, in some cases we also found controversial results that claim the need of further well-designed studies to definitely state the efficacy and tolerability of IVIG in CAPS, obstetric and non-APS.
The Constitution Reform Group, convened by former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Salisbury, is to make the the case for radical constitutional change in the UK by claiming the need has been boosted by the vote to leave the European Union.
The script theory claims the need and importance of repeating acquired patterns.
To define treatment response - EHF claims the need to go into patient categorization - one term does not fit all.
The paper claims the need for novel middlewares to manage dynamically retrieved client-side positioning systems in a synergic way and depending on context, i.e., LBS requirements, user preferences, device characteristics, and overall system state.
When it comes to war crimes committed by terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, time and again Roth ignores the clear evidence, refusing to issue public condemnations or hold press conferences claiming the need for thorough investigations.
