The phrase 'minimize the issue' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the act of trying to reduce the importance of something or to make something seem less significant. For example: John tried to minimize the issue by explaining the situation in a different way.
This is not to minimize the issue.
USA Basketball officials attempted to minimize the issue.
But on the other hand, I don't want to minimize the issue".
Despite efforts to minimize the issue in Belgium, it has not gone away.
The Mets tried to minimize the issue, depicting themselves as a team using extra care handling a prized asset.
And during the third debate, Mr. Bush tried to minimize the issue, saying that the reservists being sent to Iraq "didn't view their service as a backdoor draft.
"I don't want to minimize the issues that are at stake," he said today, "but there's going to be a point when everyone can look back on this as a hiccup".
Guidelines are provided to minimize the issues or completely eliminate the interference of one or multiple variables.
The other group of people are having issues with an existing dog and they are using the obedience training as a way to solve or minimize the issues.
A strategy that has recently been developed and that could help to minimize the issues related to the heterogeneity of the sample is the idea of "data sharing" proposed by Belmonte et al. [ 60].
To minimize the issues of data entry errors or missing values on identifiers, 10 deterministic identifiers were created using components from variables including the case number, social security number, date of birth, first name, last name, telephone number, ZIP code, street address, sex, and street address of the provider or physician ordering test.
