"met with difficulties" is a correct and usable phrase in written English. You could use this phrase any time you're describing a situation in which someone encountered problems or challenges. For example: "The team met with difficulties when designing the new product, but eventually they were able to resolve them.".
The introduction of the new Aristotle met with difficulties at the University of Paris.
Further, vaccine design and diagnosis technology have met with difficulties in sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility.
It will provide inspiration for "further inquiry" and presents many more examples where the creationist is met with "difficulties".
10 years later, while conserving Huashan Pictographs in Ningming, Guangxi Autonomy under the leadership of China National Academy for Cultural Heritage, conservators met with difficulties in restoring cracked and delaminated lime stones.
Tells how Carter has met with difficulty in getting approval for his appointments of Theodore Sorensen as head of the CIA and of Griffin Bell as Attorney General.
Reforestation often was successful on more accessible, privately owned lands in the coastal ranges, but such efforts frequently met with difficulty in areas (often public lands) with poorer soils and steeper, more rugged terrain.
Efforts to grow working teeth, however, have met with difficulty.
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