The phrase "addressed the need" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Here is an example sentence: The company implemented new policies that addressed the need for better communication within different departments.
His shortest addressed the need for alternative energy.
In the broadcast, Suhayda addressed the need for his party to organise and act respectably.
In fact, even some Vatican officials addressed the need for changes inside the Vatican.
And Ms. Rice addressed the need for renewed American leadership around the world, in a speech several guests called "electrifying".
The dissent by Justice Thurgood Marshall in the Bakke case, all but forgotten in current debates about affirmative action, addressed the need rather than the justification.
Dr. Satcher said the report also addressed the need solve the problem of the easy access that young people have to guns.
*They addressed the need to discipline their emotions to avoid the unnecessary penalties that helped force their second-round series with Toronto to the maximum seven games.
Mr. Calder?aid that until now, Washington had not properly addressed the need to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.
It wouldn't be the first time that the F.C.C. relabeled Internet access services -- and certainly not the first time it addressed the need for equal access.
"I wanted to see something that both addressed the need for leadership and direction, and what we can practically do that will improve the care we give," she says.
Elliott did not specifically rule out funding for Carmicheal, but ANZ's 2016 corporate sustainability review addressed the need to move away from coal and expressed support for new electricity generation projects.
