'grappled by' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to struggle or to try to overcome a difficult situation or problem. Example: The company was grappled by financial losses, forcing them to lay off several employees.
He also announced the government would press ahead with thorny policy problem of modernising the Royal Mail, an issue grappled with by successive administrations.
Just whose English is being taught, and for whose benefit, is one of the many questions being grappled with by researchers around the world under the applied linguistics banner of Tesol - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
While his true market value is grappled over by lawyers and agents, he can only dream of a time when he, like Crespo, can reap the fruits of his labour and truly own his destiny.
She adds: "I'm less down on how it sounds now," citing both the fact that "raw analog sounds are back in fashion" and her desire to see her compositional techniques grappled with by critics and composers.
There are certain ethical quagmires, grappled over by anthropologists and ethnologists since time immemorial, in attempting to document uncontacted or lost people tucked into the few remaining hidden pockets of this earth.
The need to assess the effectiveness of education and validate the usefulness of EBP approaches is clearly being grappled with by many health professions.
Here are some of the subjects with which it grapples: death by flatulence, the pains of anal sex ("I'm going to rest my asshole"), and a hatful of diarrhea.
"It's at the discretion of the composer and the publisher to decide how much or how little to participate," Ms. Bilfield said, while everyone continues to grapple step by step with "the more gnarly elements of the matter".
"After close inspection of the video, we saw that the cockroach was using its legs as grappling hooks by engaging its claws at the tip of the ledge".
