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"contend with difficulty" is correct and usable in written English
It is an idiom meaning to struggle with difficulties or to endure something challenging. For example: "She had to contend with difficulty to finish her degree in three years."
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Panelists using video must contend with difficulties we've all encountered: Poor lighting and bad camera angles are the bane of videoconferencing, Hantula says.
Working with a borrowed tent, Laliberté then had to contend with difficulties with the European performers who were so unhappy with the Quebec circus's inexperience, that they had at one point sent a letter to the media complaining about how they were being treated.
Successful silver prospectors had to contend with the difficulty of obtaining good information in order to form efficient CPF strategies.
Apart from high costs, such studies would have to contend with the difficulty of securing continued availability and participation of health providers.
Agriculture in Armenia has to contend with many difficulties.
The women had to contend with other difficulties.
Even when fund managers find ways round the regulatory barriers, they must then contend with the difficulties of distributing their products.
Rogen played a young father who must contend with the difficulties of living next door to a fraternity house in the ribald Neighbors (2014).
The whole point of choosing Batam for development was its proximity to Singapore.Besides the competing interests of provincial and district governments, infrastructure development also has to contend with the difficulties of land acquisition.
Beyond the poverty that oppresses their communities, they contend with additional difficulties because of their youth: the absence of parents; lack of a predictable, secure home environment; the challenge of governance systems failing to serve young people as citizens with real needs, and so on.
The lawyers familiar with the prosecution analysis said the federal prosecutors had to contend with the legal difficulty that it is not a federal civil rights violation to mislead state investigators.
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