"to answer the need" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It is used to express the idea of responding to a particular requirement or challenge. For example, "The organization was founded to answer the need for better access to healthcare in rural areas."
To answer the need for English textbooks in the new psychology, he wrote a Handbook of Psychology, 2 vol. (1889 91).
We get asked for videos every week, but we can't do anything to answer the need because the laws on what's obscene are a mish-mash," Hoyle says.
A call went out recently in the local news media urging former special forces officers and their trainers, at the rank of major and below, to answer the need of their country and visit a Ministry of Defense Web site to reapply for service.
Providing sustainable synthetic routes to answer the need for a sustainable future.
But it failed to answer the need for more soldiers, and full conscription was finally introduced in January 1916.
A time series method is applied to answer the need for next day Medium Voltage/Low Voltage (MV/LV) substation load forecasts.
Elsewhere in Africa, English helps to answer the needs of wider communication.
Once that happened, he said, "Israel's ability to answer the needs of the Palestinians will be significantly increased".
He said it was "mind-boggling" for a church or a small community development corporation "to answer the needs of so many diverse funders".
Vertical software: a product built to answer the needs of a specific industry or vertical.
Yet, such a development is critical for understanding the proper impact of attributes on resolution approaches, and to answer the needs of actual applications.
