Sentence examples for combat a problem from inspiring English sources
'combat a problem' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it in any context where you are attempting to solve a problem. For example: "We must find a way to combat this problem if we want to continue succeeding."
The railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said its miniature drones would be used to patrol the depots and train yards on its own property, not in public spaces, in an effort to combat a problem that costs the company around $10 million a year.
"For the I.M.F. to be devoting so much financial and human capital to try to combat a problem in Europe which is largely political in origin and can only be solved by political agreement is controversial," he said.
But the president continues to insist that drugs alone cannot combat a problem that is also exacerbated by poverty, poor education and nutrition, and a lack of trained nurses.
That episode, combined with the increasing problem of drinking parties in homes involving minors, prompted parents and the police in Glastonbury to try and come up with ways to combat a problem that seemed to be out of control.
It is the third major sweep since Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in May that they were adding millions of dollars and dozens of agents to combat a problem that costs the country billions of dollars each year.
To combat hopelessness, a problem both moral and practical, Mr. Cain has advocated a sentencing overhaul and has added programs at the prison like a TV station, a Baptist seminary and a hospice with inmate helpers.
But this charge was specifically brought in to combat a litter problem and has caused several knock-on effects.
The Bloomberg administration has been working to combat a deadly problem in New York City: drivers who speed or run through red lights.
It would have taken a remarkably strong federal statute, loaded with every enforcement measure in the book, to combat a social problem of that magnitude.
That money could help combat a core problem of the credit crisis: the reluctance by banks to give companies the short-term loans needed for daily business.
Isolated examples like these were supposed to be the "tip of the iceberg," in the words of Kris Kobach, who has staked his career on devising onerous voter-I.D. requirements to combat a nonexistent problem.
