The phrase "an amendment was needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a change or modification to a document, law, or agreement is required.
Example: "After reviewing the proposal, it became clear that an amendment was needed to address the concerns raised by the stakeholders."
Alternatives: "a revision was necessary" or "a change was required."
Talks have been taking place with the UK Government because ministers at Holyrood believe an amendment is needed to UK equalities legislation to protect individual celebrants who may not want to conduct same-sex ceremonies even if their church, as an organisation, backs them.
In the biofortificaton process, there are no extensive genetic alterations of the plant; thus, these organisms should not be considered "GM [ 8]." However, because levels of certain micronutrients are higher in biofortified crops, an amendment is needed to the Regulation Concerning the Biotech Safety Management of Agricultural Gene Alteration.
Duane Tananbaum wrote the hearings "provided the amendment's supporters with a wider forum for their argument that a constitutional amendment was needed" and gave opponents a chance to debate the issue.
Republican legislators said the amendment was needed to block an attack on freedom and individual rights by Congress.
Orban had said the amendment was needed to honor an October referendum, in which more than 3 million Hungarians, an overwhelming majority of those who voted, rejected EU migrant quotas.
Mr. Coburn said the amendment was needed to prevent doctors from trying to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions.
(The museum says no amendment was needed because, as the museum's landlord, the city can set whatever rules it wants).
According to Dr. Rob Davies, South Africa's Trade and Industry Minister, the amendment was needed to transform the demographics in the workplace to better reflect those of society, he said in a statement.
Frank E. Holman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Bricker Amendment was needed "to eliminate the risk that through 'treaty law' our basic American rights may be bargained away in attempts to show our good neighborliness and to indicate to the rest of the world our spirit of brotherhood".
