Sentence examples for needed to be combated from inspiring English sources

Those who were concerned that the country had become unmoored from conservative values, and that abortion and same-sex marriage needed to be combated, voted for Rick Santorum.

In a much-cited contribution to the Lancet, Rickman argued that this neurotic element needed to be combated with risk-based public instruction: 'The public in fact should be instructed to think in terms of relative quantity, of more-or-less (reason, conscious mental action) rather than of all-or-none (blind belief, unconscious mental action)' (Rickman, 1938b: 1295).

Michael Spurr has told BBC Panorama that while the risk is small, radicalisation in prisons needs to be combated.

This unfortunately growing phenomenon is clearly beyond the pale, and needs to be combated with every tool at our disposal.

She would like to see policy-makers acknowledge that "this is extremely bad news for the European region as a knowledge-based economy, and that therefore these forms of discrimination need to be combated with some urgency".

Costa Rica has mosquitos that are sneaky and incessant and need to be combated with an ample supply of bug spray.

While he said he had been heartened to see that "a lot of ground has already been covered" in combating the epidemic, he stressed the disease still needed to be fought and eradicated.

In the South, "no profound analysis, no overriding social theory was needed in order both to locate and understand the injustices that were to be combated," he wrote.

As Stalin noted, no deviations remained to be combated.

I do believe we're seeing the effects of climate change and we all need to be involved in combating it, at an individual, national and global level.

While those specific areas need to be more precisely defined, combating terrorism, limiting the spread of advanced weapons and managing peacekeeping responsibilities are likely candidates.