The phrase "assign issues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to project management, software development, or task delegation where specific problems or tasks are being allocated to individuals or teams.
Example: "During the meeting, we decided to assign issues to each team member based on their expertise."
Alternatives: "allocate tasks" or "delegate problems".
Here's the thing: Besides writing monologue jokes and sketches, writers were assigned issues every night.
4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: Individually, students write a letter to Justice Roberts discussing their understanding of their assigned issue and offering their own views on this topic.
Explain to students that each group will research their topic in preparation for writing and delivering a two-minute story as part of a class political news commentary show called "What's Next?" Each group should answer the guiding questions in terms of their assigned issue, using The New York Times newspaper or Web Site (//www.nytimes.com) to broadly (and briefly) conduct their research.
If, for example, a firm was designing an instrument to be used to bet against the underlying collateral — Goldman Sachs's famous Abacus deal was created so the hedge fund manager John Paulson could short risky mortgages — a firm could assign debt issues to the deal that carried overly optimistic or misplaced ratings.
But you have assigned yourself issues that are not the core business of a military.
Villaraigosa appointed new people many of whom were very talented to government jobs, and assigned these issues to them.
Villaraigosa appointed new people — many of whom were very talented — to government jobs, and assigned these issues to them.
Monday's announcement assigned those issues to particular days, giving a sense of the logical sequence in which the justices will approach them.
The head of a government drug advisory body that was to focus on ice just five months ago has backed Tony Abbott's decision to assign the issue to a separate new taskforce.
