feel the necessity for

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Personally I am in favor of limiting debate to the shortest time, for I feel the necessity for prompt action.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

He now began to feel the necessity for some new display of activity in defending the frontier and accordingly he built a sort of row-galley upon which he placed some four-pound cannon.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

The fleet slackened their fire towards night, as the guns of the enemy became silenced, and the ships began to feel the necessity for husbanding their ammunition.

From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Osler, Edward

Strange indeed, that the inhabitants of a climate so bland, and a soil so fertile, should possess the taste, or feel the necessity for so revolting and unnatural a species of barbarism.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

"Look here, my friend, haven't we been married long enough for you to cease to feel the necessity for those pretty speeches?"

From Patty and Azalea by Wells, Carolyn