The phrase "addressing the immediate problems" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing solutions or actions taken to resolve urgent issues or challenges.
Example: "The committee focused on addressing the immediate problems facing the community, such as lack of access to clean water."
Alternatives: "tackling the urgent issues" or "dealing with the pressing concerns."
Thus, when policy responses fail to take a long-term perspective, they run the risk of addressing the immediate problem at the cost of creating a bigger one down the road.
In remarks to the House Budget Committee, Mr. Bernanke said that the government must address the immediate problems of a crippling recession that has erased trillions of dollars in household wealth, hobbled investment portfolios and raised unemployment to its highest levels in a generation.
And not only to address the immediate problems, but really to address the structural problems, the underlying causes.
A grant from the Government of Japan helped address the immediate problems caused by the drought, whilst UNICEF and the government are working in the Karakpakstan region on long-term projects to improve water resources and help future generations to remain in their region.
As a result, many of these bodies proposed mechanisms to the inquiry that would cater for EU nationals in the years directly following 2020 in order to address the immediate problem of researcher mobility.
Continuing to rely on natural gas peakers may address the immediate problem, but the supply systems for these plants — as the Aliso Canyon leak demonstrated — are fragile.
Seattle is fortunate that our mayor Ed Murray is committed to spending more resources to address the immediate problem of homelessness, but we can all be doing something to help.
"We've never seen anything like this". Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are engaged in battle and actively throwing resources to address the immediate problem all the while ignoring the war that claimed those dozen lives and has left many more to suffer.
Now that you've addressed the immediate problem, it's time to clean the kitchen from top to bottom, focusing on the pantry, to get rid of any eggs the moths may have left behind.
"But completing it four years out is not helpful in addressing the immediate diversion problems which are rapidly increasing".
