Sentence examples for matters but rather from inspiring English sources
On a memorial near her burial site, there is the old Grantland Rice line about how winning and losing are not what matters but rather how one played the game.
Experts and religious leaders say the chill that has descended on China's Christian community is not the result of doctrinal matters but rather Beijing's fear that the rapidly growing church could become a political threat.
This isn't to underplay the divisions among Democrats over these matters, but rather to say that many of the tensions appear rooted in the party's increasing acknowledgment of this new reality and its efforts to adapt to it.
The problem isn't the bleakness of the material — reviewers should never presume to question an author's choice in such matters — but rather its presentation, all theme and no variations.
The police have tried to control matters, but rather than being solved, the problems seem to be escalating and the locals are increasingly staying indoors or even moving out of the trouble spots.
"[I]t is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as chair at each company should be someone who is not a trustee of my father's trust [as Dauman is, and Moonves is not] or otherwise intertwined in Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice.
"This isn't a political matter but rather a visit from the traditional Aboriginal community … of Australia.
The whole idea behind voting is that any single individual does not matter, but rather the collective voice of the people is what becomes significant.
His opponents in the mosque, however, have seized upon some of his comments not to open a dialogue on this matter but rather to use it as an excuse to demand his ousting.
The three featured artists, Pamela Long Nolan, Valta Us and Marion McManus, have little in common beyond a general interest in nature, not so much as subject matter but rather as a point of departure.
Georg Simmel, the German sociologist, once observed that the processes of natural decay do "not sink the work of man into the formlessness of mere matter," but rather create new form, "entirely meaningful, comprehensible, differentiated".
