The phrase "touch on a matter" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to briefly mention or discuss a topic or issue without going into great detail. Examples: 1. The speaker only had a few minutes, so she could only touch on a few key points about the company's financial situation. 2. In his essay, the author touches on a variety of themes related to identity and belonging. 3. During the meeting, the CEO briefly touched on the company's new sustainability initiatives. 4. In her speech, the politician touched on several important policy proposals, but didn't have time to go into detail about each one. 5. The teacher reminded the students to review the homework assignment, but she didn't touch on the upcoming exam.
Such questions often arise when a movie deals with history — but they may be especially urgent when a film as expertly made as "The White Ribbon" touches on a matter of such gravity.
Not that Israel intends to dismantle settlements anytime soon — on the contrary, construction proceeds apace, "facts on the ground" accumulate — but this debating point touched on a crucial matter.
Lapointe only touches on a subject that is a sensitive matter among Academy grads: that standards for Air Force football players are often different from those that apply to everyone else.
But they occasionally touched on matters of substance during Ms. Kagan's four-year tenure in the administration, in which she served first as an associate White House counsel, then as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Counsel.
Most of his exclusive paragraphs reported more pleasant things like coming engagements and some of them touched on matters of genuine public interest - as distinct from what was of interest to the public - such as the exclusive revelation in 1976 that the Labour leader Harold Wilson was thinking of resigning as prime minister (denied at the time but soon to be vindicated).
So far he has been the sort of proprietor newshounds dream of, with a light touch on editorial matters and a willingness to finance experimentation and bear losses.
Labour MEP Catherine Stihler said that, although Ukip had presented itself as a party with only one policy, it was showing itself to be "exceedingly rightwing and out of touch" on a range of policy matters.
But before we touch on this matter, let us keep in mind that the first attestations of grammatical metaphors are found in adolescent writing (Halliday 1993; Christie 2002).
No reform bill introduced in the last few years has dared touch on subject matter limitations.
Most of the works touch on universal subject matter in a variety of mixed media, but in a nod to local tastes, a good proportion will be made in traditional styles such as Chinese ink painting.
