The phrase "wrestle with a problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It may be used when describing difficulty in solving or dealing with something. For example, "I have been struggling to find an answer to this issue, and I'm afraid I'm still wrestling with the problem."
WHEN officials at the Federal Reserve meet next week, they will wrestle with a problem most other central banks would love to have: what to do if unemployment gets too low?The question is not hypothetical.
This broad interest in better schools offers the mayoral candidates an unusual opportunity to wrestle with a problem that looks as intractable today as the city's crime rate appeared to be a few years ago.
But, as you say, we can err on the other side too, providing too much guidance, such that our students aren't challenged to be creative, to wrestle with a problem, and to generate their own ideas.
Klout, his last company (which raised $40 million and sold for $200 million) was launched in the early days of social media as an attempt to wrestle with a problem companies still struggle with — gauging the importance and influence of an online presence.
Some people are happiest when they're wrestling with a problem; I'm one of those.
Because of this the EU summit is wrestling with a problem that goes well beyond Turkey: how to keep the whole process of expansion alive at a time when its underpinnings are being eroded.
ALAIN GAUTHIER, who runs the Bell Centre, home of the Montreal Canadiens, wrestled with a problem confronting arena and stadium operators all over: large arrays of energy-sapping light bulbs.
But now, if I'm wrestling with a problem or really want to connect with someone, I turn off the ringers, collect my racing mind and find the time and space to focus.
But recently it has been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health service.
In Sacramento, legislators wrestled with a problem that most conceded consisted of a series of politically unpalatable choices -- making taxpayers, ratepayers or the shareholders of the utilities pay most of the billions of dollars of losses being incurred -- with no clear indications of the best direction.
I'm the kind of person that mentally wrestles with a problem and then beats it beyond recognition.
