Sentence examples for incidental matters from inspiring English sources

But incidental matters such as these are not decisive, especially as confessedly the statute leaves the jurisdiction over those cases in which the matter in controversy does not exceed $2,000 in value in the state courts.

But Ms. Healy spends so much time setting out the parameters of her particular dystopia that incidental matters like the creation of substantial characters, a consistent story and a philosophical argument get lost in the ominous murk.

In a 30-minute conference call with reporters, which was intended to highlight education issues that he will emphasize next week, Mr. Gore took several questions about what Republicans are portraying as a pattern of exaggeration about often incidental matters.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said the privileges and immunities of U.S. citizens refer to "fundamental" rights, not "incidental" matters like obtaining local real estate assessments.

Mr. Paterson's endorsement of Mrs. Clinton is hardly an incidental matter for the junior senator from New York.

Lewis affirmed the nature of his occupation and invited the agent to his place of business which, as an incidental matter, turned out also to be his home.

Is the target only art? Art was no incidental matter for Adolf Hitler, whose designs on the world, keyed to the rightful dominance of a purified master race, were aesthetic at their twisted root.

One of the definitions of modern realism — as in the films of Roberto Rossellini — is that it's an art of the seemingly extraneous: the incidental matter in the background surges to the foreground, making character and environment inseparable.

46 Regardless of the magnitude of the figures, the economic consequences of continued adherence to Triplett are serious and any reduction of litigation in this context is by comparison an incidental matter in considering whether to abrogate the mutuality requirement.

This is not an incidental matter; the clause is carefully structured to attempt to get authors even from the countries that do not allow the waiver of moral rights — they are considered that important — still to promise not to assert those rights (whether or not that would be enforceable in those countries).

Although it would be tough to argue that the exhibition brought down barriers between art and food, since the two have been pals throughout history, PLEASE HAVE ENOUGH ACID IN THE DISH! certainly centralizes the function of food in artwork, emphasizing edible goods as intellectual and creative curiosities, rather than merely incidental subject matter.