matter

Even if it hadn't technically finished, I was no longer a virgin, and that's what mattered to me.

Only later did people realize that the technology was just a tool; what mattered was how it was used.

He was able to influence and motivate people because he understood what mattered to them and was an excellent communicator.

and since it was Christine's habit to bury the things that mattered most in the silence of her own being, she rarely mentioned her mother.

She did not believe that such things mattered much.

What mattered was that he had deserted Chiang Kai-shek and of his own accord.

All that mattered was that they had a body to bury and perform prayers upon.

It seems to me that the only thing that mattered was to get her husband back to her.

It mattered a great deal to her what other people thought of her.

All that mattered was being home with my family, feeling that connection again, and knowing that I wasn't alone.

He was a southerner and older than we were by enough years to understand why the name issue mattered.

And never has there been a moment when partnership between India and America mattered more to the rest of the globe.

Live life like it was the only one you were going to get and like it mattered how you lived it.

If you were an engineer, all that mattered was the quality of your code.

He describes his relationships with the four women, apart from his mother (well, sort of apart from her), who have mattered most to him.

Which he'd talk about, over the small wooden chess table, as if nothing else mattered, as if there were all the time in the world.

What mattered to him was to control symptoms, to be able to talk to his family and to leave a positive legacy.

Tess accepted his bitterness, not understanding the details. He did not love her as he had done, and nothing else mattered.

For him, the feeling of his knee was the only thing that mattered he forgot about everything else in his body during that part of the swing.

Where Clare had deposited them she did not know, and it mattered little, if it were true that she could only use and not sell them.

I thought it mattered to make a life on my own, but after accomplishing that, I realized there was something missing.

Mindful of how much it mattered to the Chinese, Mrs Clinton saw it as an opportunity to build their trust.

Imbalances were a problem for another day. All that mattered then was the post-crisis fix.

The implications of all this were that it was not the disturbance of sleep that mattered , but the disturbance of dreaming.

Though really, the only destination that mattered to me was reaching what I took to be the dark and broken place in my daughter's heart.

None of that mattered to Dong Hua, a sales executive from Zhejiang waiting in a ticket line at Beijing South station.

None of this would have mattered much if the Wall Street Journal had not run a powerful series in 2006 about backdated stock options.

All that mattered was conquest in the name of Kratos, their great leader, who had become near invincible.

Mr Davis on the telephone to say he couldn't attend the meeting tonight. As if it mattered!

What mattered most to him was that a piece was simple and honest, that it worked, and that it was good enough to put his name to.

This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.

Instead, the consensus among the policymakers who mattered, in the U. S. and overseas, was that the panic had to be stopped at any cost.

Sweetheart, I don't exactly like salty coffee. But as it mattered so much to you, I've learnt to enjoy it.

Any oddities about him could be dismissed ; it was his game that mattered .

Forget about all that. What mattered was the improvement in margin.

But for Mr Yang, a rational and fair trial was all that mattered.

I also wondered if all my education mattered or if it conditioned me to follow the status-quo.

The Soviet KGB and its pre-revolutionary ancestors did not care much about money; power was what mattered.

"We were really going to be able to do something that mattered. "

It was a position that mattered far more to China than to Britain. The concession was presented as an exercise in diplomatic house-tidying.

I've gone through life like a bat out of hell, never caring what I did, because nothing ever mattered to me.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned interchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

The process, everybody said that, we have experienced, the result was injured has not mattered, we really did not care about?

I thought that it mattered what I said or where I said it.

Charlie? That struck a chord, and I tried to pay more attention to what he was saying. Charlie mattered, if nothing else did.

Republicans should stop reflexively blocking everything the Democrats propose, and start discussing policy as though it mattered.

Nothing else mattered now. He was about to transplant this new life to his own home, and reap much happiness.

In the boom, all that mattered to them was yield, and they did not need help finding it.

"In the days after the quake, money didn't matter. All that mattered was the relief effort. "

In my college classes, I realized what I had to say mattered far more than how I could say it.

Zwingli continued to use Greek, as a scholar of the humanist tradition who believed that the language mattered very much.

It was what you believe that mattered, from which you could gain power and courage.

They concerned themselves with a Brazil in which only a third of the population mattered.

And she came through, reminding me that what I was learning, doing, and thinking mattered.

"I feel terrible, " I cried, as if this were what mattered.

The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.

Rehearsing these responses aloud will help you to more effectively discuss what you did and why it mattered.

There was a time when big-league university presidents really mattered.

Encounters often have its lights coming to end, have mattered a fine hundred thousand turn back.

He said that what mattered was the 'feel' of somebody.

The only thing that mattered, they claimed, was the accuracy of predictions.

Even their small errors hardly mattered, swept up in the roar of the crowd.

But more important, he added, was to find people who cared a great deal about precisely the same things that mattered to him.

If I were my parents, I would absolutely have made me quit my junior year and focus on what really mattered: work.

Then, when it mattered, he took home only bronze.

In such a subjective judgment, truth mattered not at all.

The Protestant work ethic and the scientific revolution no doubt mattered.

Reason had nothing to do with love. It mattered not whether the woman he loved reasoned correctly or incorrectly. Love was above reason.

What mattered most was not the substance of the course so much as the way she thought, the style of learning she fostered.

The simple truth is we liked each other, and that's all that really mattered.

Although I didn't make tons of money, none of that really mattered because I felt like I was part of something special.

The neo-cons that mattered most in shaping the "war on terror" served in the Pentagon and the White House.

He said what mattered was how I was playing and not the league I was playing in. That really helped.

This theory would not have mattered much except that Thabo Mbeki, a former president of South Africa, latched on to it.

Not that mattered though, because she walked around like she was better than all of us put together.

Her clothes were burned but it didn't matter. All that mattered right now was getting home.

People in Rome saw each other as competitors who would fight and lie to gain any advantage. Getting ahead was the only thing that mattered.

Two things mattered: the first, to do with my character, my curiosity for knowledge; the second, to be able to buy artists who count.

Second, the London professors disputed that it mattered not the form spending took, whether on consumption or investment.

The plan with maximal critical development intensity is not surely the best one, no mattered for the city or for project itself.

"There were offers on the table, but the only thing that mattered to me was regular first-team football, " Schwarzer told Sky Sports News.

None of it mattered, because Harold and Erica clicked.

Icould have failed, but even if I had, it wouldn't really have mattered: I'd probably still have got close to my goal.

The people who mattered in Washington were the war hawks, not the money men.

All of those crisp-collared shirts that mattered so much there, all of the belt buckles and tie bars, I put them in storage a long time ago.

Visuals mattered a lot on this one, especially the opening sequence where we emptied Times Square on an early November morning.

Certainly, technology was a vital tool in their efforts but we believe their bravery and determination mattered most, ' Ms. Frost said.

That might not have mattered so much to an earlier generation of workers, who planned to return to their villages in retirement.

b. Money and position seemed all that mattered.

The researchers question to answer was whether or not feelings mattered when it came down to having safe sex.

The researchers question to answer was whether or not feelings mattered when it came down to having safe sex.

It might be the same thing that mattered most yesterday, or it might not be.

But when I had to give up my studies, I vey soon realized that none of it really mattered.

That the ruffles of the robes were rotting from overuse never mattered. They were only rinsed once from the previous day.

Syrians used to look at neighbouring Lebanon and Iraq and conclude that stability mattered more than freedom.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

In power they soon replicated some of the forms of an imperial court, and China's history always mattered more to them than "Das Kapital" .

Symbian is the product of a carrier-focused world where voice minutes mattered and data came only from walled gardens.

What mattered for me is they wanted me to stay and my decision was made.

At that time we had had nearly a decade of the well-intentioned but quite wrong belief that peace was all that mattered.

Again, it was not the level of benefits that mattered, but the marginal loss of benefit as one moved into or out of employment.

It was not much, but it was the principle that mattered.

What mattered was the statement accompanying the Federal Reserve's decision.

Every time I did, I taught people that their opinions mattered more to me than my own.

Essien was booked for his celebrations but it mattered little as Chelsea got within sight of making the record safe.

That's all that mattered, not Nelson.

But none of that mattered.

The measure that mattered most was whether a new idea would be good for the Internet user's experience.

The hype mattered: Thain's status helped him raise almost $20bn for a firm that had lost all credibility before his arrival.

Mr Segal made a powerful case that China mattered far less than many believed.

Mr Segal made a powerful case that China mattered far less than many believed.

"Because you mattered, Adolf, " I said aloud to no one, "Because I was your friend. "

But music, the only thing he had and the only thing that mattered in his life, saved him.

The negative effects of fat and alcohol we see today would not have mattered so much then as life expectancies were between 30 and 40 years.

None of this mattered when business was simple.

The negative effects of fat and alcohol we see today would not have mattered so much then as life expectancies were between 30 to 40 years.

I was seeking experiences and a deeper understanding of who I am and what really mattered to me. More stuff didn't do that at all.

When brute strength mattered more than brains, men had an inherent advantage.

Some intriguing research by Dr. Barbara Fredrickson reminds us why his good attitude mattered so much.

In short, when measuring their life in comparison to others, incomes mattered most.

But while overall heart rates made little difference for visualizing the coronary arteries, heart rhythm mattered far more.

Economically, the Marshall Plan mattered far more in Greece, France, Austria, and Holland than it did in Ireland, Norway, or Belgium.

That mattered because despite its nominal independence the "Fed needed political protection. "

In the meeting room, a space not usually associated with popcorn, it mattered a lot if the popcorn tasted good.

I believe the wisdom of the ages helped me see beyond my station in life, helped me imagine a world in which I mattered.

This slender volume suggests that scientific and technical responses mattered as much as moral and philosophical ones.

In Europe the ECB's intervention certainly had an effect where it mattered: yields on Spanish and Italian bonds came back down to 5%.

'What really mattered more [than the downgrade] were the macro-economic issues of the day, ' he says.

Nearly two out of three said that the Beijing government was doing a good job on issues that mattered to them.

Clam down, relax. I really didn't think it mattered all that much.

Toyota went for what really mattered: dependability, with ads featuring moms driving through the rain to pick up their kids from school.

The key to my recovery was meeting some really special friends who made me feel that I mattered because of who I was and not what I wore.

For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

But if Mr Hurd was "only one person" and the company was what mattered, why did HP pay him $30m in 2009?

Sitting around a huge table in the Afghan foreign ministry, the 68 delegates were each allotted five minutes to say what mattered to them.

There is no attempt in pseudo right now to try to handle static linking, and thus far, it hasn't mattered.

An American government spokeswoman said it barely mattered who was running al-Qaeda because its ideology was bankrupt.

In fact, the computer operating system has never mattered less than it does today.

The mattered was thought to have been settled.

Providing for adequate drainage and other engineering considerations mattered as much as arranging surface features.

But results for the 2-year-olds were dramatically different. In children from poorer households, the choices of parents still mattered.

Puts us in a situation where we can't help but feel Jesus's pain. If only Gibson had taken the time to tell more of us why it mattered.

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered.

Old school: The only thing that mattered was spending 2 to 3 hours on your feet.

When early humans started drawing on the walls of caves, they created a lasting record of things that mattered.

i thought it was nothing , after experienced for so many times. but still i felt it mattered and mattered a lot.

In Pausch, who died on July 25, you'll see the clarity and joy of a man who chose all along to do what really mattered.

It never mattered what time of day or night it was.

At each link in the chain, the fees mattered more than the quality of the loans, which could always be passed on.

This is not because, despite his own delusions, Qaddafi mattered to the world remotely as much as Saddam did.

So women who felt penis girth mattered may have different ideas of what the ideal penis girth is.

What mattered most was how excited SHE was about it. She wanted it vibrant and fun.

I had no worries at all, like nothing else in the world mattered.

There is an urge to say, "I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me. "

But the White House didn't just get the formula wrong. It made the mistake of thinking the formula mattered.

This shouldn't have mattered because there was a backup.

Even the humiliation of trailing in a poor third in a hitherto keenly contested game no longer mattered very much.

It was clear to everyone that the dress, like it or lump it, mattered.

A touch of envy too, for his certainty that literature mattered.

And, for almost all, family and friends mattered most.

'Yes, But that never mattered to the syndicate. They only wanted to protect their money.

Although there were 44 participating countries, only two really mattered, the UK and, above all, the US.

If countries thought that the organisation really mattered, someone else would stand.

It mattered to Americans who claimed that distinction, as proved all too clear in 1908, when Jack Johnson, a black man, won the title.

This mattered since he was, in the 1960s, "the best-known private citizen in South-East Asia" .

and suddenly i had to walk away. food no longer mattered.

The point is that once, spying really mattered.

Thus, the "on board" date mattered more than the date of issuance of the document.

It wouldn't have mattered if I'd moved to Siberia.

Asset allocation mattered little, until it mattered a huge amount.

How everything you did It really mattered to me oh. . .

Not only was individual intelligence irrelevant, but group cohesion mattered little.

The one that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were.

It is like in the great stories , the ones that really mattered .

America has long been astoundingly wasteful about energy use, but for years, that mattered little because power and fuel were so cheap.

What if I did the things that really mattered?

The reasons the Fed took the actions were what mattered more for stocks.

To van Loon, human achievement mattered above all things.

the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger.

What mattered more than fame or celebrity was content.

Some first ladies matter, sartorially speaking, and some don't, and not since Jackie Kennedy has a first lady mattered this much.

Even though everyone watched the same video and witnessed the ripping with their own eyes, language mattered.

The genetic connection has never mattered.

I know. It's what kills me. If there'd just been one day, Ian, one day, when nothing else mattered for us. . .

It might not have mattered too much then . . . but in the working world, punctuality is crucial.

But their decisions were easy: Nothing else mattered if they didn't have a product and a customer.

kids were important to God, and that our opinions mattered. They listened to our thoughts, and encouraged us in our lives.

Those were the things that mattered in combat.

The guest experience has never mattered more.

By itself, that rate mattered much less to economic activity than, say, those on 12-month corporate loans or 30-year mortgages.

She doesn't fall into that category but I couldn't convince her it mattered.

He loved red wine, but the quantity mattered rather than the quality.

When I look back, that is just what she gave to Luca and me: the reassurance that we were loved and that we mattered.

That news was good, and it mattered: It lifted stock markets across Asia. But was it true?

Deep down, where it mattered, he stood his ground.

Other debates have mattered, too.

That mattered less when the smelter was isolated in the desert.

They found that all three factors mattered.

Or attractiveness. It mattered not how many foes he faced. They were no match for his bodacity.

I'm quite certain that my mind was focused on everything except those that truly mattered.

It wouldn't have mattered if you hadn't been waiting for so long.

The pattern of growth mattered.

Strength of mind, that's what mattered.

And then, while the pretty brunette girl finished singing her verse, he buzzed me through like I was someone who mattered.

How she looked mattered.

But it mattered little as Chelsea made it 4-0 two minutes later.

What mattered was reclaiming the people to citizenship from "serfdom" and "slavery. "

Precisely because they mattered less, they were freer to do what they wanted.

Sergei Semak stole everything that mattered to me, and Kochenko helped him do it.

Once again Honda didn't have the pace when it mattered.

Look at these eyes. They've never seen what mattered.

'I realized the type of work I did mattered more to me than the compensation, ' she says.

But until recently, there were few of them and they mattered less.

Mr. Obama says the people of Iran need to know their ballots mattered.

These qualities mattered in America's first president and will matter as Americans decide on their 44th president.

I don't know if I always made my father proud, or if that even mattered.

It mattered not how many foes he faced, there were no match for his foedesity.

What mattered it to them?

Victor: Sorry, I didn't think it mattered.

He had lost many of the people who mattered to him.

A: Well, I'm sorry. I didn't think it mattered.

This is my story of the only three friends in my life that have truly mattered.

That's because they bestow value upon things that once mattered to them.

It mattered not how many foes he faced.

How often it happened and with how many people was immaterial, according to the study. What mattered was with whom.

Then half took part in exercises where they chose values important to them, and they wrote about why these mattered.

So i know that he mattered to them.

Beyond The Metropolis: Urban Geography As If Small Cities Mattered

So I try to hold on to a time when nothing mattered

Economics as if ecology mattered

So I try to hold onto a time where nothing mattered

The only dream that mattered had come true

but then it was content, not form, that mattered to Mr Hart. These were great thoughts,

Nothing else mattered other then you and me

They're the only one that mattered

Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank

How everything you did It really mattered to me

Other case studies where headline and copy mattered:

When music really mattered and when radio was king,

Think of all the things that really mattered

But it never really mattered

and that's all you get, in the end our love mattered

They've never seen what mattered

what mattered then kept changing every day