"realistic needs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing that something needs to be feasible and achievable. For example, "We need to come up with realistic needs that can be met in the current economic climate."
Washington should provide adequate financing for these purposes, but spending must be based on realistic needs, not inflated threat assessments or parochial Congressional interests.
Focusing on realistic needs, this study aims to develop an extended priority-based hybrid genetic algorithm (EP-HGA) for the present LCL problem to determine the loading patterns.
Focusing on the realistic needs, this study aims to develop a manufacturing intelligence framework integrating defect inspection, feature extraction, support vector machine classifier, and similarity matching approach to reduce false alarm of defect classification, while the catching rate is enhanced.
Hence, I'd like to propose The Carpool Protocols, a manual that addresses the realistic needs of parents as they put their children in the care of others to share rides to and from common destinations.
Frantic, endless, argumentative rewrites followed, angst and perfectionism battling the urgent realistic need to get one tick from one man in the BBC.
We cannot, however, maximize cost benefit in critical care within the current sociopolitical framework where consumer desire supersedes realistic need.
Four models of dental needs have been suggested: professionally-defined need (normative or evaluated need), perceived need, expressed demand, and realistic need [ 3].
That means, based on the background of students one needs to assess the realistic need for their training to bring them up to the desired proficiency and knowledge level in computational biology.
The Gang of 8, together with other realistic politicians, needs to show some leadership qualities; they need to stand in front of Americans and tell them loud and clear that most of them are wrong on their views about immigration.
"Trophy houses and starter mansions consume land and resources beyond realistic housing needs".
Recently several prominent environmentalists have concluded that any realistic solutions needs to include nuclear energy.
