The phrase "provoke the need" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to imply that a situation or event has sparked the need for something. For example, you could say "This tragedy has provoked the need for a change in public policy".
The justified continuous emerging of new β-lactam antibiotics provokes the need for developing suitable analytical methods that accelerate and facilitate their analysis.
In June 1942, Japanese forces attacked and invaded the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska, again provoking the need to complete the tunnels sooner.
The only thing more mindless than a tweet is a retweet, and the visual cue of Tweetcred's little blue dots might be enough to provoke the nanosecond of reflection needed to prompt an investigation into the provenance of a supposed fact.
While these negative effects were found during heavy sustained exercise, the results have been less consistent at submaximal exercise, probably because fatiguing contractions are needed to provoke the metaboreflex [44].
He is the wise-cracking nihilist, jokes provoked by the need not to leap.
Provoked by the need to enable agile deployment of new services while, at the same time, slashing operating expenditure and energy consumption, the trend in telecommunications is to shift functionality from physical appliances to virtualized services.
It will need regular trimming, but that will provoke the very headlines the fund was set up to avoid.
"It remains difficult for Brazil as a nation to create an acceptable social environment for itself, and as creators of popular music we have always sought to provoke or suggest the need for a Second Abolition that will truly liberate this country" in a way that the end of slavery little more than a century ago did not.
The reduction in the perceived severity of vaccine-preventable diseases may be explained by the fact that cases are increasingly rare, and this may provoke debate on the need to vaccinate.
No wonder their reactions sometimes provoke a need for the attentions of Security and Medical.This column, too, has decided to explore other opportunities for its talents.
Fifty years ago the meetings often provoked violence; hence the need for an advance scout to relay warnings.After the Spy Boy comes the Flag Boy.
