The phrase "a matter of damage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues related to harm, loss, or injury, often in a legal or insurance context.
Example: "The dispute between the two parties is primarily a matter of damage caused by the accident."
Alternatives: "an issue of harm" or "a question of loss".
In other words, it's a matter of damage control.
For Mr. Obama, the invasion of Iraq was a mistake and the efforts he would make there are essentially a matter of damage limitation.
"I think she has tremendous instincts for survival and self-protection, but this is just a matter of damage control," said Bennett L. Gershman, a professor at Pace University School of Law here.
On a day of some drama in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, warned after receiving May's letter that there would be "no winners" from Brexit, and the next two years would be a matter of "damage control".
From then on, it was a matter of damage limitation for Rosberg, who asked his team to tell him what he needed to do to finish in the top five - the result that would give him the title should Hamilton retire.
Goffin, ranked 105 in the world, went into the match with just three tour-level wins on grass in his career, and when he leaked a forehand wide to drop serve in the second set, it became a matter of damage limitation for the Belgian.
It was only a matter of damages". Campbell also said that Locke showed she was talented and could have been highly successful.
Its bodycount may not be a matter of "collateral damage", but paranoid, punitive killing sprees: a semi-rogue body on whose behalf there will always be someone to dismiss dissenters as the enemy's useful idiot.
But the corps has countered that the South River project would be a matter of reviving damaged wetlands rather than creating new habitats in wholly inhospitable areas -- a point that Mr. Spiegel concedes.
It doesn't seem to be a matter of user-damage, either – even amongst the handsets that have been pampered from day one, cracks have been spotted.
What to call economic collapses has been a matter of political damage-control at least since Herbert Hoover referred to the collapse that began in 1929 as a "depression" in order to avoid the frightening word used for earlier economic collapses, panic.
