The phrase "affords matter" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that something provides significance or importance, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The research conducted on climate change affords matter to the ongoing debate about environmental policies."
Alternatives: "provides significance" or "offers importance".
The exception in respect of transporting liquor not intended for sale found in the statute affords matter for affirmative defense.
The review opened with a sentence that has since been widely quoted: "That such a book as this should have been permitted to go forth to the world with the imprimatur of the University of Cambridge, affords matter for very grave reflection".
This latter unification affords matter the additional properties of weight and quality.
As our extremely ridiculous blunder afforded matter for much legitimate and good-natured merriment to our contemporaries of the Sunday press, and a happy occasion for airing a little envy, malice and uncharitableness to the less respectable among the daily journals, the newspaper world is indebted to us for making it, and our apology is addressed to the world of readers alone.
The sense and subjects might be borrow'd plentifully from the Proverbs of Solomon, from all the common appearances of nature, from all the occurrences in the civil life, both in city and country: (which would also afford matter for other Divine Songs).
Thick bones, he said, afford interior matter more protection from environmental degradation.
One such class shall provide for the most expeditious handling and transportation afforded mail matter by the Postal Service.
A default would relieve Greece of paying off a mountain of debt that it cannot afford, no matter how much it continues to cut government spending, which already has caused its economy to shrink.
Grealish is yet another homegrown player who seems to have benefited from the diverse nature of a football club whose priority is producing the best footballers it can afford, no matter where they come from.
He also never buys more lair than he knows he can afford, no matter how attractive the mortgage.
This sounds suspiciously like the seven last chances certain players have been afforded in matters involving drug abuse and the tortured official nonresponses to the steroids phenomenon.
