Meet With Meaning

(ergative) The proposal met with stiff opposition.

Example: Used other than as an idiom: see meet,‎ with.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 239:
  â€˜They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’
  â€˜They want what?’
  â€˜To meet you. But they use the preposition.’
  â€˜Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.
To encounter; to experience.
  The proposal met with stiff opposition.
1900, L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
  Dorothy told the Witch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.
To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
  They met the proposal with stiff opposition.
  The proposal was met with stiff opposition.
To strike (something).
  His face met with a punch harder that a punch should be.
To contact or touch (something).
  The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.