The phrase "approaching trouble" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where difficulties or problems are imminent or likely to occur soon.
Example: "The team noticed signs of approaching trouble when the project deadlines were not being met."
Alternatives: "coming difficulties" or "impending issues".
As a driver approaching trouble, "you usually get one shot to minimize a wreck," Rudd said.
A woman of few words, she presided over generations of dancers, choreographers and backstage personnel with a wryly detached wit and a calm, almost uncanny sense of approaching trouble.
In the next paragraph Grossman describes how at night the Germans tied geese up around the outskirts of the villages they occupied, to be certain that the villagers did not get prior warning of any approaching trouble.
Police routinely stop foreign journalists from approaching trouble-spots.
Phil Mickelson, an imaginative feel player whose short-game genius can be mentioned in the same sentence as Ballesteros's, was inspired by the way the long-armed Spaniard approached trouble shots in the trees and tight lies around the greens.
The campaign's change of tone as the election approached troubled many of those who had been pleased to see the emergence of a "new Nixon".
The agent had been called by a lookout in the neighborhood who had seen the men approaching; suspecting trouble, he'd also called the police.
As the faculty vote approached, more trouble arose for Dr. Sexton in the form of news reports about lavish compensation for N.Y.U.
In the Observer, CA Lejeune approached the trouble with talkies head on: "We may deplore limitations of language for the hitherto universal cinema," she wrote in her review.
The approach troubles some Republicans in the state, who say it is too risky to eliminate California from the party's national base.
Rather, the reason that her approach troubled me was that in its efficiency and effectiveness, it was proof that when it came to words and punctuation — and there wasn't much I was good at besides words and punctuation — I hadn't taught her anything.
