"expressing a need" is a perfectly valid phrase that can be used in written English.
For example: "The city council was expressing a need for more funding for the public library."
"They were expressing a need for a higher sodium product".
"The Core Curriculum", which goes into effect for Harvard freshmen next fall, began about 4 years ago when Rosovsky wrote a letter to the faculty expressing a need for a "fresh and realistic statement of the purposes of undergraduate education".
Speaking during her visit to Bali last week, Bishop said concerns about heightening tensions in the South China Sea had spilled into talks between Indian Ocean nations in Indonesia, with countries expressing a need for a rules-based order.
"There was an apparently unheeded fax from the Department of Health to the MoD [by] December 1990, a month before the war started, expressing a need to be aware of the preliminary results of trials that had combined an thrax and whooping cough vaccine on mice, the very cocktail that many of our veterans had been subjected to.
"We help you acquire new customers by reaching out to nearby consumers who are expressing a need online for something you offer," Andrew Allison, the other co-CEO told TechCrunch.
European radiologists have an overwhelmingly positive opinion regarding the future of teleradiology, while also expressing a need for further standardisation (in training and quality assessment), providing both legal regulations and an adequate reimbursement system.
