The phrase "a grave problem facing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a serious issue or challenge that is currently affecting a person, group, or situation.
Example: "Climate change is a grave problem facing our planet that requires immediate action from all nations."
Alternatives: "a serious issue confronting" or "a critical challenge impacting".
Deng Yuwen, an editor with an influential Communist Party journal, published "The Ten Grave Problems Facing China": Although the author echoes the formal party line and extols the peerless achievements of the Hu-Wen decade, Deng goes on to deliver an accusatory accounting of China's underlying social, economic, regional, political and ideological problems.
In a speech to the assembled diplomats, he was expected to touch on some of the grave problems facing Mexico stemming from drug violence and poverty.
Returning to the more grave problems facing the region, the pope greeted young people from Syria, paralyzed by an 18-month civil war, who he said were in attendance.
"It is our hope and our prayer that the two sides could come together for some sort of action to address the grave problems facing the lowest-wage earners in our state," the statement said.
She saw climate change as the gravest problem facing the international community: "The facts on the ground are outstripping the worst case scenario models".
Increasing the minimum wage would directly address the gravest problem facing our society and economy -- growing income inequality.
This is the closest we have come to meaningful health care reform in decades; if the president compromises it away too early it will be a devastatingly lost opportunity to make right one of the gravest problems facing many Americans.
"We are facing a grave problem here," said Dr. Jorge Yabkowski, the president of the Federation of Health Professionals of Argentina.
And they loved it.The ministers faced a grave problem: the production cuts that they engineered last year, with help from Mexico and Norway, had tripled oil prices in a year to around $30 a barrel.
