"sorted out the issue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a problem or conflict has been resolved or dealt with. Example: After weeks of negotiation, the team finally sorted out the issue and came to a compromise.
These fresh-faced, suited and booted principals are wily political operators who are hideously impressive when you meet them: they have sorted out the issues of our country's educational ills with their mastery of the data and implemented "evidence-based interventions" (they like to use medical jargon) to ensure "all the needs of students" are met.
Professor Berman suggested Congress would have to sort out the issue, perhaps with a victim compensation fund.
The Association of Colleges (AoC) is trying to sort out the issue, which, says senior skills policy manager Teresa Frith, "is horribly operational".
Mr Blair is determined to sort out the issue before he leaves office and wants a bill announced in the Queen's Speech in October.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that China and Japan should sort out the issue themselves, but that "We would fulfill our alliance responsibilities," a term that clearly referred to the American military alliance with Japan.
Bishop arrives in Paris on Sunday to lead Australia's negotiating effort for the final week of the summit and Tony de Brum said he would need to have an exchange to "sort out" the issue with her.
For the world to help Europe in such an effort when Europe has, so far, shown no real ambition in sorting out the issue itself, though, would seem far-fetched.And in the long run migration north to Europe will never just be a matter of refugees.
The prime minister said she wanted to sort out the issue of mutual rights "at an early stage of negotiations" with the EU, but she appeared to rule out a deal before the two-year process triggered by article 50, due to be invoked next spring.
Indeed, Gene Grabowski, a spokesman for the Grocery Manufacturers of America, which represents most major food companies, says the decision by several companies not to use genetically altered foods is evidence that the food industry is finding a way to sort out the issue for itself.
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid said he was determined to sort out the issue of mobile notspots.
There are large variations in cure rates and recurrence rates among the surgical options in literature and like all surgical techniques, there is a paucity of well-designed trials to sort out the issue.
