It's the association that matters, rather than the item itself.
Many of the measures were imposed by officials responsible for fiscal matters rather than health care.
Perhaps it's the change in unemployment rate that matters rather than the absolute number?
It is the distribution of power that matters, rather than its make-up.
That's all that matters rather than what people who you'll probably never even meet thinks".
He has frequent lunches, often centered on personal matters rather than work issues and very brisk.
But, on the whole, it's what the words do that matters, rather than what they are.
"The board's focus is on broader policy and legislative matters, rather than operational matters," she said.
"I want to make sure speed and getting things done quickly is what matters, rather than ethnicity and other issues".
The EU should deal only with important matters, rather than what a banana or a cucumber should look like.
As canons for trustworthiness developed explicitly in the discourse of qualitative inquiry, the emphasis was on procedural matters rather than fundamentally relational ones.
