Sentence examples for needed official from inspiring English sources

For any external travel, you needed official permission.

Government officers shunted journalists away from hospital interviews with the injured, and lawyers needed official permission before giving interviews.

Even after China started to open up under Deng Xiaoping, another football fan, the game was difficult to play, as meetings of ten or more people needed official sanction.

She and other feminist members of the party started a new feminist journal titled Red Rag; when the CPGB leadership insisted they needed official permission, they carried on regardless.

As the IMF explains: "A country participating in this system [Bretton Woods] needed official reserves – government or central bank holdings of gold and widely accepted foreign currencies – that could be used to purchase the domestic currency in foreign exchange markets, as required to maintain its exchange rate.

Apparently, those seeking asylum in Switzerland weren't being denied access to the pool, they just needed "official authorisation" to do so.

Troops will be allocated where needed, officials said.

What Beijing needed, officials decided, was a world-class museum in time for the Olympics.

What this city's 27 public hospitals really needed, officials decided last month, was police officers.

Currently, about 30 agents are in place, but at least 20 more are needed, officials said.

But that money is only a small fraction of what is needed, officials say.