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Synonyms for needful

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Synonyms for needful

incapable of being dispensed with

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Synonyms for needful

necessary for relief or supply

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Single and in their 50s, each is a distinct blend of guile, guts and needfulness, traipsing through the dating world with predictable and even trite results, their chatter constantly hitting on sex, relationships and sex.
(83.) The Court's Lochner-like arrogation to itself of the power to review the needfulness of state antidiscrimination legislation sheds unflattering light on its decisions interpreting section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which purport to hold that the power to define impermissible discriminatory conduct is reserved to the states.
Second, the Boy Scouts majority understands the "freedom of expressive association," as the Lochner Court understood the "liberty of contract," to demand a judicial balancing of interests in order to evaluate the needfulness of a challenged law, in pointed contrast to the categorical reasoning insisted upon in the Court's "federalism" cases.
The best-seller status of Man's Search for Meaning is not so much an achievement on my part as an expression of the needfulness of our time.
Then the role call - terrors, pains, and early miseries, regrets, vexations, lassitudes - all of whose needfulness Wordsworth's prosodic momentum passes through and sustains.
In this dysfunctional world of anger, needfulness, and hunger for love, they drink tea and eat babkas, blintzes, and knishes.
Prior to 1791, the unqualified language of the District Clause arguably did permit Congress to control judicial outcomes, though such a statute probably would not have survived even the minimal requirement of needfulness under the Territories/Property Clause.
Single and in their 30s, each is a distinct blend of guile, guts and needfulness, traipsing through the dating world with predictable and even trite results, their chatter constantly hitting on sex, relationships and sex.