3. Word order and phrasing matter: In surveys, the exact same question can elicit substantially different results if questions are asked in a different order.
Since politics does not work like that, however, and since immigration is a toxic issue, the phrase matters.
As the composer David Lang wrote in the program notes: "In Piano and String Quartet you can hear Webern in the distance — in the way each gesture, each note, each phrase matters.
As he phrased matters, expressing the feelings of every writer who has had to submit his prose to the sub-literate invigilations of state hirelings: "The defenders of the press in this assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending.
In other words, to phrase matters more technically, the laws of physics are the same in every inertial frame of reference, that is, in all frames related by a Galilean transformation.
The recital unfolded like a vast epic: intensely coloured, fiercely dramatic, generously expressive; every phrase mattered.
Phrasing clearly matters.MPs report that constituents who support gay marriage are not demonstrative about it, whereas opponents campaign assiduously.
He reads the scores of Mozart's operas, their instrumental lines in particular, in just this way, for clues to pace and phrasing: technical matters, Sir Peter says, which the interpreter must assimilate before trying to fill the words and music with unique, individual emotion.
The use of the phrase "accounting matters" seemed to indicate that the company was considering changing its financial statements from the ones released last week.
With blunt emphatic phrasing, a matter-of-fact attitude and a bright but coarsened voice that doesn't try to be pretty, Ms. Scheckter is no simpering romantic, although she confessed during Tuesday's opening-night show to a lingering "delusional" crush on Tony Perkins.
