The phrase "help to thrust the issue" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to assist or contribute to bringing attention to a problem or topic. Example: "The passionate speeches of the activists helped to thrust the issue of climate change into the public consciousness."
Mr. Lazio left it to the governor to elaborate, and Mr. Pataki sought to thrust the issue onto Mrs. Clinton, who, he asserted, had kept the controversy alive.
"Until America tells the truth about itself, we're not going to heal," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said at a forum with Ta-Nehisi Coates, the writer whose landmark 2014 article, "The Case For Reparations," helped thrust the issue back into American consciousness.
She was with Melissa Sklarz and Madison St .Claire, the trans women who were advocating for trans rights in New York City years before boldfaced names like Chaz Bono, Chelsea Manning, and Laverne Cox helped thrust the issue into the spotlight.
A better way would be for it to throw up its hands, declare defeat and thrust the issue back to Congress from whence it came.
The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old technology wizard thrust the issue of access to information back into the limelight, Noam Cohen writes in The New York Times.
The stoning to death of a pregnant Pakistani woman by her own family has thrust the issue of so-called honour killings into the spotlight.
With work having dramatically slowed, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar thrust the issue back into the limelight early this year.
Five years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates thrust the issue of reparations back into the national spotlight.
The legislature is known to thrust unresolved issues toward the finish line in the final hours.
But the recent wave of immigration to Spain has thrust the murky issue into the spotlight.
