The phrase "attack on the issues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a critical examination or confrontation of specific topics or problems, often in a political or debate context.
Example: "The candidate's speech was a strong attack on the issues that matter most to the voters, addressing healthcare and education reform."
Alternatives: "critique of the issues" or "assault on the issues".
Making data internationally available so that teams are tracking the same genes and species in different countries may be one avenue of attack on the issue of antibiotic resistance.
Nationally, the environment rarely ranks high in surveys of voters' priorities, but Mr. Kerry said he would press his attack on the issue.
The Clinton campaign sees Walker and other candidates who have not made college affordability a priority as ripe for attack on the issue.
Labour has accused an "ideologically driven" government of trying to bully the BBC in the party's fiercest attack on the issue of public service broadcasting since the election.
Mr. Clinton came under attack on the issue as Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said today that the president had impeded Congressional efforts to expand Medicare to cover prescription drugs.
Elizabeth had sense enough to avoid a showdown with the Commons, and she retreated under parliamentary attack on the issue of her prerogative rights to grant monopolies regulating and licensing the economic life of the kingdom, but on the subject of her religious settlement she refused to budge.
Today, in his most forceful attack on the issue, Mr. Bradley, who has slipped appreciably behind Mr. Gore in the polls here in recent days, appealed to women by sharpening his remarks on the vice president's abortion record and promoted his own support for a laundry list of women's issues.
I am told that an announcement will be made in Parliament this morning about a two pronged attack on the issue.
It was only in June last year, in an interview with the editor of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald, that the defence minister, Arturo Puricelli, launched the government's attack on the issue.
