According to such armchair analysts, each courtroom program can be said to answer a subtly different need.

It is answering a direct need of the audience.

Pando seems to have answered a need, reporting more than 600,000 downloads of its software in six months.

Or you can simply answer a true human need - and make your contribution through the activity itself.

The new banks answer a need for California's Vietnamese population, which numbers close to half a million people - 55 percent of America's total.

The tower was built, privately at first, to answer a public need.

But it is incredibly portable, and probably will answer a need.

Equally important was the fact that various ideas and fashions developed in the West answered a native need for new forms of expression.

No thought, no speech among them; just the compulsion to answer a calling need.

And now, suddenly, as if answering a need, at dead of night, she felt her mother's presence coming near.