The phrase "acute challenges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe significant or intense difficulties that require immediate attention or action.
Example: "The organization is facing acute challenges in its efforts to adapt to the rapidly changing market conditions."
Alternatives: "severe challenges" or "critical challenges".
"Lone actor terrorists are perceived as presenting acute challenges for law enforcement practitioners in detection and disruption," the report says.
"These early signs of improvement are encouraging, but the global economy is still operating well below potential, and we still face acute challenges".
This might have significant effects, e.g., on the pulmonary artery pressure in specific situations: acute challenges in swine often result in marked pulmonary arterial hypertension [63].
"It is also an unsustainable economic position in view of the huge pressure already placed on public services at a time when the country is still facing acute challenges within the economy".
The paper examines how a re-engineering approach can benefit irrigation management and canal operations and, hence, how the current, acute challenges to water management (e.g. competition, multiple users and protection of the environment) can be addressed.
The aim of this study was to establish the association of trait anxiety and anger with hormonal responses to acute challenges with two different 5-HT agonists in a mixed group of patients with depressed mood.
Perhaps an even more acute challenge is water.
That reality poses an acute challenge to Ms. Barshefsky's successor.
The most acute challenge today is to sustain governments' support for the Cambodia tribunal.
It also may present the programmers, the audience and the video artists whose work is being shown with a newly acute challenge.
Before then it was Plaid which posed an occasionally acute challenge to Labour in the industrial valleys of the south-east.
