This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation that requires a solution or someone who requires assistance. For example: "The problem of poverty is in need of a solution."
But speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Balls sounded like a man that saw a problem in need of solution, and certainly did not want to backtrack at the first sound of gunfire from vice-chancellors.
Even the very existence of a problem in need of solution is not entirely obvious - yes, none of the generic plasticity mechanisms can fully eliminate all the problems (p.4), but at the same time not all and every individual of the population must survive for the population to survive.
In the past, the socioeconomic groups usually most in need of solutions to teenage pregnancy were disenfranchised by reason of education and availability.
How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions?
"And hopefully now we have some new technology to solve the carbon problem". Solutions that create problems in need of solutions: that, he told me, is the definition of business.
These are problems desperately in need of solutions and many of those solutions can be found in emerging technologies.
Organizations are in need of solutions that combine both technology and business processes so they can take full advantage of their information.
Stakes are high and there are big problems in need of solutions; it's time that politicians stop talking and start listening.
"Practical imaginativeness allows individuals to identify problems in need of solutions, prompting a perceived need to generate ideas, and generation of ideas in response to the salience of this need," researchers Alexander Kier and Jeffrey McMullen wrote.
Each incoming class of Pratt undergrads is required to take "First Year Design". The course divides students into teams and matches them with "clients" around campus and the local community who have real-world design problems in need of solutions.
As a result, the greenhouse gas emissions, caused by use of conventional fossil fuels, have become a serious issue, in need of solutions (Bajracharya et al. 2017; Liao et al. 2016).
