The phrase "is understood to require" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to convey that something is necessary or expected based on a general understanding or assumption. Example: The dress code is understood to require business attire for all employees at the office. In this example, the phrase "is understood to require" indicates that it is expected for employees to follow a dress code requiring business attire at the office. It conveys that this is not explicitly stated, but is a standard expectation.
Another outstanding plan, for the management of groundwater dependent ecosystems, is understood to require significant additional work.
It is understood to require an infinite array of choices and the power to move among them as if you were sampling or grazing your way through life.
Often, the project of normative legitimation/justification is understood to require in the first instance an abstracting away from questions of praxis, power, and history – i.e. from questions of "means," of practical constraints and possibilities – in the project of reaching an agreement on the principles of justice.
Customary international law is understood to require that state practices be followed from a sense of legal obligation, though international lawyers have long puzzled over how those obligations come into being.
There is now a category of things that may or may not be taxes, but that the constitution is understood to require us to treat like taxes for legal purposes.
For this reason, metformin is understood to require transporters to cross membranes.
Both Bell and Ogletree argue forcefully that Brown should be understood to require not color blindness but an end to white supremacy and the subordination of African-Americans.
The question for the court was whether that law should be understood to require that the explosive be carried "in relation" to the underlying felony, or whether it was sufficient that it occurred at the same time.
This early nationalism was understood to require a homogenous population, and Quakers presented a challenge.
Disagreeing, an Obama administration lawyer argued the Constitution has been understood to require "equal representation for equal numbers of people".
Historically, a crime has been understood to require the combination of both the act itself, called the actus reus, and awareness that the act was wrong, or mens rea.
