The phrase "may be confronted with" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a potential challenge that a person or thing may face. For example: "The new business model may be confronted with significant obstacles in its implementation."
Of course, he noted, the sailors may be confronted with dangers, like piracy or terrorism.
It is no exaggeration to say that some may be confronted with an unwanted move to an institutional care setting.
"Anybody that takes the job of chief of police and doesn't understand that they may be confronted with challenges like this is naive," Mr. Parks said.
As the recent horror in Connecticut demonstrates, children today may be confronted with unthinkable realities, events that their parents and grandparents could never have conceived.
"We may be confronted with more opportunistic, small scale attacks" in contrast to more sophisticated terrorist operations like those of September 2001 in the United States, he said.
Suddenly you may be confronted with a perilously short highway entrance ramp, or -- surprise, surprise -- the fact that you've rented a vehicle with a manual transmission.
The experts may be confronted during this session with a statement expressing the core challenge of the workshop that they have to debate.
Interpreting lower education as a proxy of lower socioeconomic status, one explanation for this finding may be that survivors with a lower socioeconomic status may routinely be confronted with hardships in their lives and, thus, may be more experienced in finding something positive from negative events (Tomich and Helgeson, 2004; Rinaldis et al, 2010).
Due to a high drug accumulation in normal skin, patients may also be confronted with skin phototoxicity which may persist for up to 8 weeks after treatment.
They may never be confronted with opinions that are not their own".
A German investment newsletter, Platow Brief, reported yesterday that Bayer A.G., fearing that it may soon be confronted with a hostile takeover bid, has hired Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank to devise defense strategies.
