An early way out was to carry the circumlocutions one degree furtherfinding impersonal ways of saying what was needful, avoiding both personal pronoun and title.
On the express ground that these doctrines are as needful for the laity as for the clergy, certain distinguished laymen ("illustres ac magnifici viri") were invited to sign these canons.
The congress passed a resolution urging that public lands controlled by the federal government be turned over to the states and territories needful of irrigation.
His pragmatism is a method for fruitfully sorting out conceptual confusions caused, for example, by distinctions that make (sometimes needful) formal yet not practical differences.