The phrase 'difficulties that face' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the challenges or obstacles facing a person, group, or situation. For example, "The charity is doing great work to address the difficulties that face low-income earners in the region."
To understand the difficulties that face the left you have to start way back.
No one person is to "blame" for the difficulties that face some city schools.
But nobody expects any findings to be made public.The Bonyad's privatisation drive illustrates all the difficulties that face Iran's hesitantly modernising economy.
It's just one more aspect of the difficulties that face us as Britain tries to construct an energy policy that deals with energy supply, and energy insecurity, and energy investment, and climate change, in increasingly unfavourable circumstances.
He acknowledges the difficulties that face the historian, but is cautious in his use of conjecture, deploying it always with a grace and lightness that gently prise meaning from otherwise incomplete and unyielding evidence.
It was made by boatbuilders, and is a small monument to the unshakeable optimism that every real architect must feel, in the face of endless practical difficulties that face them, from cost overruns to cricket correspondents under the impression that by entering something that looked like a flying saucer, they were becoming the victims of an alien abduction.
For years, historians downplayed the difficulties that faced governors like Yates and Morton in the Old Northwest, preferring to portray them as either unscrupulous local despots or unreasonable whiners who had to be calmed and managed by Lincoln.
Last week I suggested the difficulties that faced US forces if the President sent them into the ISIS battle in Iraq.
As it turned out, Mr. Bloomberg received an early warning about the difficulties that might face a newcomer like himself from Albany.
