The phrase "matters pointed out" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe specific issues or concerns that have been brought to attention or emphasized within a sentence or paragraph. Example: In his report, the auditor highlighted several matters pointed out during the company's annual review, including potential discrepancies in the financial statements and lapses in internal controls.
But as one former agency official, speaking on condition of anonymity about classified matters, pointed out: "What's worst about our intel is our failure to penetrate deep into the existing leadership.
An open letter in the Guardian, signed by more than 50 individuals and organisations with expertise in youth justice matters, pointed out that 2,000 primary school-age children were arrested in 2011, but that you have to be 13 years old to get a paper round, 16 to consent to sex and 17 to drive.
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Donahue of Water Matters points out that cleaning up contaminated groundwater is sometimes impossible or prohibitively expensive due to the complexity of aquifers and the dynamic nature of underground channels — something that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has learned in attempting to clean up many Superfund sites.
Reiche then debunks the idea that population matters, pointing out the poor performance of India.
As Media Matters points out, Brown failed to disclose in her op-ed that her husband, Dan Senor, is a board member of StudentsFirst NY, an organization nationally headed by former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee that leans against unions.
One criticism, void of the subject matter, pointed out by viewers has been how very, very similar the sketch is to one aired on comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes earlier this year.
In fact, in a Jan . 7 , 1986letter to The Times, William E. Jackson, the chairman of the First Judicial Department's Disciplinary Committee, addressing Mr. Safire's Nov. 28, 1985, column on the same matter, pointed out that the charges against Mr. Cohn were brought against him by the disciplinary committee in 1983, months before he revealed that he was ill.
Wells takes a judicious look at the matter, pointing out that although John Shakespeare could well have been, as many others undoubtedly were, a "crypto-Catholic," he had his children baptized and was himself buried according to the Anglican rite.
Barbara Stewart's article on the CFA Institute's blog site, "Diversity in Finance: It Matters," points out that diversity matters in finance, as women are not so much risk averse and as they are risk aware, and ask different questions.
Complicating matters, Mr. Bauer pointed out, is that in this particular case, there were a total of five people who worked for the firm: three principals and two employees.
