But the engineers also had to consider others things -- like social needs.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

In other words, it insists on the need to balance opinions, to balance viewpoints, and to balance needs, precisely in a way which is, of course, implicitly a kind of social and political centrism.

实际上它也是,要协调观点，协调需求，通过一种，社会和政治集中的方式。

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But the Uruguayan leader, a doctor by training,lamented that Latin American governments are devoting growing resources to armaments rather than dealing with pressing social needs including health and education.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Leticia Sakaria, a 19-year-old English student at the University of Namibia, says the government needs to address the country's pressing social ills.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Hyun says social instability has increased in North Korea, so leader Kim Jong-il needs to continue to reinforce his domestic power base.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

Pandya says psycho-social help will be tailored to individual needs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04