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'needed to be applied' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that must be done. For example: "The brakes on the car needed to be applied in order to stop it safely."
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Never mind that sleep deprivation takes 180 hours or waterboarding needed to be applied 83 times.
If we needed to make an urgent change or fix, it needed to be applied to multiple branches and there was nervousness around whether the deployment process itself might cause issues.
When large and unidirectional forces needed to be applied, as in woodworking, many phases of metalworking, or even in the manipulation of bone and horn, the advantage of a bench or a fixed rest became apparent.
In the 1970s, his book about public support of the arts, "The Subsidized Muse" (Cambridge University Press, 1978), argued that government arts financing was generally a good thing but needed to be applied prudently, that money simply flung at arts organizations was both fiscally and culturally irresponsible.
He said it "was not a coincidence" that John Kerry, the US secretary of state, would be travelling to Moscow next Monday after this first round of Geneva talks had concluded this week, suggesting that Kerry and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, would assess the Geneva talks and consider what pressure needed to be applied to lift the blockages.
In conclusion, not only one theory, but multiple theories needed to be applied to explain the internationalization of Giordano and Uniqlo.
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"Knowledge needs to be applied in order to be understood.
This same logic needs to be applied to university marketing.
The brakes desperately need to be applied to these plans.
The same logic needs to be applied to global gridlock.
But, unfortunately, additional pressure may need to be applied.
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