The phrase "confront a question" is correct and usable in written English.
It suggests that one is examining or looking into a query. For example, "The scientist had to confront a difficult question about the origin of the universe."
The courts now must confront a question: Can they face down President Trump without undermining their own standing?
He had come far enough that he had now to confront a question: If cognition was a deeply animal business, then how far could artificial intelligence go?
The travelers stewed, caught between the trip they were sure they had completed and the sidewalk they could not reach, compelled to confront a question of ethics at, of all places, a subway turnstile.
SOONER OR LATER, most women who decide not to look for a father for their children confront a question: How are their kids going to learn about men and masculinity?
With Mr. Russert's unexpected passing, NBC will soon be forced to confront a question with no immediately easy answer: how to replace its lead political analyst with the presidential election less than five months away.
In the coming months, as the infamous drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera is finally sentenced and put behind bars, his American jailers will confront a question that long bedeviled their counterparts in Mexico: Given Mr. Guzmán's Houdini-like talent for breaking out of prison — a trick he pulled off twice — where, and under what conditions, should he be incarcerated?
ONLY months after they tightened the rules for the euro, Europeans are again confronting a question posed a decade ago: Is their rule book in fact a little stupid?
The gay world is confronting a question with which Jews, African-Americans, and other marginalized groups have long been familiar: the price of assimilation.
His daughter and granddaughter confronted a question that occupies center stage in our times: When people embrace, trust, and act on the proposition that the United States is a land of opportunity, how are they to make sense of failure?
So she was ready when asked about it afterward, unflinching in confronting a question that goes to the heart of her presence in the Senate and her political and personal identity.
They were led by Al Gore, the former vice president who confronted a question that has, fairly or not, hovered over Mr. Obama as he struggles in his contest with Mr. McCain.
