Sentence examples for mattered on paper from inspiring English sources

No other nation acknowledges Transnistria as a country, but at this moment, the opinion of the UN and the world's cartographers only mattered on paper.

But the bubble of infallibility we've built around the public officials we entrust to respect and protect our rights means that our rights can be horribly, egregiously and illegally violated... but the illegal part only really matters on paper.

In this work we explore the chemical effects of particulate matter on paper.

Clearly, the effect of particulate matter on paper must be very localised, because it is likely that particles can only interact with the immediately adjacent fibres.The thickness of cellulose fibre threads of our samples is generally between 5 and 20 (upmu mathrm{m},) which is comparable to the diameter of particulate matter.

That's the thing: "on paper" doesn't matter anymore.

Proving these things is going to be a matter for the interview, because the terms are easily parroted on paper.

Past reputation and form on paper have mattered very little.

"If you can prove them that you can solve their problem, you instantly decommoditize yourself, and none of those things on paper matter as much," he wrote on Medium.

In other words, a 10-minute sync could be cut to a matter of seconds (well, on paper — mobile memory read/write speeds are much slower, though also rumored to be improving quickly).

And his critics agree with him on one matter: the paper points to the importance of reducing fertilizer use in China.

It doesn't matter how much profit you have on paper, until it's in the bank it's not real.