It mattered to me.

It wouldn't have mattered anyway.

Nothing else mattered to Tom.

But to her, it mattered deeply.

But to her, it mattered deeply.

When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

It would be as if my time actually mattered.

You conclude, actually, that none of these things have mattered very much.

Yet Smith's political economic magnum opus was successful in circles that mattered.

And for the first time, Africa mattered more to me than ever before.

Some say that acquitting him denies his victims suffering as if only genocide mattered.

That moment mattered to Tim and Katie, and this green goo may someday matter to you.

It mattered that Chávez reassured the masses that I am a little of all of you.

So we tried to look at the Stirling engine in a new way, because it was practical weight no longer mattered for our application The internal combustion engine took off because weight mattered because you were moving around.

Europeans should not pontificate on nuclear energy policy as if our opinion mattered worldwide, but we do.

The pressure that has always mattered most for the Assad regime is that capable of being applied by Russia.

We can conclude that nuclear deterrence mattered in the crisis, and that the nuclear dimension certainly figured in Kennedy s thinking.

We know that's wrong, because we conducted two great natural experiments in the 20th century to see if geography mattered more than institutions.

He contended that economists traditional focus on competitive markets was misplaced what mattered was competition for the market, not competition in the market.

But the flows that mattered were not the net flows of capital from the rest of the world that financed America s current account deficit.

A sense of history mattered greatly to him Legacy and influence Once Paradise Lost was published, Milton's stature as epic poet was immediately recognised.

But it was not the ratio of nuclear weapons that mattered so much as the fear that even a few nuclear weapons would wreak intolerable devastation.

I set out to write a compelling economic story, one that had great characters, that no one else was telling, and one that I thought mattered.

For Wimsatt and Beardsley, the words on the page were all that mattered importation of meanings from outside the text was considered irrelevant, and potentially distracting.

Although nbsp The Hite Report initially spurred great controversy, in the end it was broadly accepted that women s pleasure and sexual well being mattered and deserved respectful inquiry.

Such rule led some thinkers to take the position that what mattered was not the design of governmental institutions and operations, as much as the character of the rulers.

And what we found, to many people's surprise, was that those LinkedIn résumés were more honest on the things that mattered to employers, like your responsibilities or your skills at your previous job.

James D. Steakley writes that what mattered in Germany was criminal intent or character, rather than criminal acts, and the gesundes Volksempfinden ( healthy sensibility of the people ) became the leading normative legal principle.

Although he begins by telling Barton The writer is king here at Capitol Pictures , in the penultimate scene he insists If your opinion mattered, then I guess I'd resign and let you run the studio.

CA So, you have to wonder when, you know, if some other species than us was recording the stories that mattered on Earth, you know, our stories are about Iraq and war and politics and celebrity gossip.

Or perhaps something like the bipolar hegemony of Great Britain and Russia after 1815 (though other players like Austria, Prussia, and France mattered) could be reconstituted, with the US and China substituting for Great Britain and Russia.

One of the most tragic aspects of the whole story, just now emerging, is the failure of UN officials on the ground to publicize at the time, when it really mattered, credible information that would have undercut the government s narrative.

The will of the collective (President Obama voters) mattered more and is considered collectivist because ultimately, the totality of decision by the voters in the country, expressed through the electoral college system, was more important than the will of any single individual in that context.

It was obvious that the place in the world where you go and freely think as big as you wanted and all that mattered was the quality of your ideas and your ambition, it was completely obvious that it was America more than anyone else, says Arkani Hamed.

You need to understand that in those places what really mattered was, firstly, the role of Tudman and Milosevic in coming to the agreement, and then the fact those men went, that the regional situation improved, that the European Union could offer Bosnia something extraordinary the chance to be part of a new thing, a new club, a chance to join something bigger.