Sentence examples for have really mattered from inspiring English sources

For once, it may have really mattered.

This one seems to have really mattered to Obama.

"In truth, the Holland game shouldn't have really mattered because in the game against USSR in Hannover we played so well that coming away from it I still can't believe to this day that we didn't win.

But then that nagging voice piped up again: if Democrats think it is so critical to get tough with crooked banksters, why oh why didn't Barack Obama take the many, many opportunities he had to do so back in the days when it would have really mattered?

But had it never existed, it would not have really mattered.

It wouldn't have really mattered either way.

But none of that has really mattered, presumably because his credibility is shot.

In big games in the past, when it has really mattered, his battery has been too often flat.

There have been times in Britain's modern history when trade policy has really mattered, breaking parties and swinging elections.

However, one thing that Bale has not yet done is deliver the goods when it has really mattered.

This may sound like an odd admission, but for years afterward I wondered whether President Reagan's Berlin Wall address had really mattered.