The phrase "to face a problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to confronting a difficulty or challenge. For example: "My daughter has had to face a lot of challenges in her young life, but she always overcomes them with resilience."
They therefore had to face a problem: Could assent to an authoritative revelation be justified before the bar of reason?
Clark and Doodeheefver were happy about this, but now they were trying to face a problem that had come up with Barnes & Noble.
A compromise is possible; and shared design and components certainly should lead to economies of scale.Still, spending must rise, and here Mrs Alliot-Marie might seem to face a problem.
He suspects that his firm, far from being the nasty exception it has been portrayed as being, is merely the first to face a problem that is industry-wide.
"When the North collapses — and one day it will, of course — we're going to face a problem that we've been spared in Libya," one senior South Korean official said on Friday in Seoul, declining to speak on the record about the most sensitive contingency planning involving South Korean and American officials.
But, if we have to face a problem we have never met before, we need to use our intuition.
This might include reading about how other people have dealt with similar problems, or it can be as simple as collecting together your past successful approaches to facing a problem.
Western companies looking to bring their products to China face a problem not unlike that of Chinese parents naming a baby boy: little Gang ("strong") may be regarded quite differently than little Yun ("cloud").
But she and her centre-right political camp are starting to face a different problem.
Mr. Singer, usually conservative in his political outlook, says opponents of needle access refuse to face a growing problem.
But those studies are not likely to be completed for years, leaving specialists like Dr. Kwon to face a medical problem playing out in baffling ways.
