Sentence examples for hurting matters from inspiring English sources

"The president believes we can promote conservation, we can increase energy development, and we can do so without complicating matters or hurting matters through price controls".

Of course, a free gourmet meal and merlot probably didn't hurt matters.

Matthew Shear, publisher of St. Martin's, said: "Clearly there is some connection, which didn't hurt matters with our accounts in the early days.

That way exactly how much it hurts matters less than recording whether the level goes up or down with a change in meteorology.

It also cannot hurt matters that New Jersey will want to hold onto New York's support for a key Port Authority plan: to build a $6 billion rail tunnel beneath the Hudson to Midtown Manhattan, although Mr. Shea said that was not part of the ground zero discussions.

It doesn't hurt matters that the other woman is Clare Grant, a young actress who, to date, has starred mostly in low-budget horror movies that require her to show lots of skin; Grant is fairly magnetic, at least on the small screen.

Does this help or hurt matters?

Having a largely Republican-controlled U.S. government didn't hurt matters any either, but change has swept across the landscape during the past year.

That the company was able to lock up some key partnerships in 2012 — think AT&T, Procter & Gamble, and Walmart to name a few — certainly didn't hurt matters.

That news greased the skids for an early rally on Wall Street, and news from the U.S. government that unemployment claims dropped in the latest weekly tally didn't hurt matters.

Her complementary jeweled navy top didn't hurt matters, either.