The phrase "counter the challenges" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use the phrase when you are discussing how to face and address obstacles, such as: "We must come up with a strategy to counter the challenges we face in the market."
Individually we are weak; together we are stronger and better able to counter the challenges of the likes of Google or Craigslist.
During an extraordinary assembly of the OAS in September 2014 in Guatemala, the hemisphere approved a joint resolution that marked the beginning of a new phase in the regional approach to counter the challenges posed by the world drug problem.
The outcomes of the study are expected to counter the challenges associated with the engineering of nanostructured surfaces with specific physical and surface properties for medical devices with significantly improved cellular response.
We posit that it is an opportunity to expand SMOTE for a Spark or Hadoop implementation to counter the challenges of small disjuncts, fewer number of positive class examples, and high dimensionality.
Yet she misses an opportunity to explain how rebuilding our own economy is the way to counter the challenges posed by Russia and China rather than by pursuing unnecessary military solutions.
Discovery of new antibacterial agents is crucial to counter the challenge of drug-resistant bacterial infections.
The start of electronic trading had been scheduled for June, but was pushed forward to counter the challenge from Frankfurt.
None the less, the big six firms have been busy slashing prices in the last few days to counter the challenge from new entrants.
"A prevailing ideology of individual responsibility and vested commercial interests have combined to thwart, dilute and undermine previous attempts at effective polities to counter the challenge of obesity," the report says.
Even as Mr. Bush has been getting gravitas implants from the G.O.P. elder statesmen, Al Gore has adopted the pose of a protean outsider, first moving his headquarters to Nashville from Washington and then posing as a populist to counter the challenge of Ralph Nader.
He added, "Today, as you know, he was out meeting the public, as he said he would on his first day in office, and he's just now getting back to his office". Mr. Stephanopoulos spoke at about 2 P.M., and several hours later, White House aides said, the Clinton team was still casting about for a strategy to counter the challenge to Ms. Baird's nomination.
