The phrase "admit the need for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when acknowledging or recognizing a requirement or necessity for something.
Example: "In order to improve our performance, we must admit the need for better communication within the team."
Alternatives: "acknowledge the necessity for" or "recognize the requirement for".
For Isaac, the Angolan government has been too proud to admit the need for help.
There is no environmental rescue plan: to admit the need for one would be to admit that the economic system is based on a series of delusions.
Democrats won't admit the need for major benefit cuts in Social Security and Medicare; Republicans won't concede the necessity for higher taxes.
Even as it became clear that most governments could not deliver on their Kyoto promises, powerful environmental groups and influential Green parties redoubled their support for the treaty rather than admit the need for adjustment.
The concepts seem a little fuzzy at times, but the overarching thesis is that it is time to rethink the common wisdom of how to achieve success: sleep four hours a night, work 20 hours a day, see your family rarely and never admit the need for downtime.
When I do begrudgingly admit the need for a case, I use Otterbox.
The response of the management admits the need for thoroughness in preparing for board meetings.
As they say in treatment of alcoholism, the first step is admitting the need for help.
His mother, Judy, had after Wimbledon admitted the need for her son to work harder, and this he has done.
Mr Whitcomb runs Automated Trading Desk, a firm that competes with market makers, and freely admits the need for independent confirmation of his findings.
Roderich Kiesewetter, a CDU parliamentarian, admits the need for confidentiality (news that a sale had been turned down could cause a diplomatic spat), but thinks the government could do a better job of informing the Bundestag.
