But since it is perceptions that matter in politics, the international-affairs budget of the State Department, the programme under which foreign aid falls, is bound to suffer.
With Douglas Hofstadter, he might have concluded that it's relationships that matter, since the patterns of thought and feeling encoded in our neurons will repeat themselves in the brains of the people we love, like musical echoes.
Since all that matters is the ability to manage money, rather than the administrative skills and service that go into defined-contribution schemes, domestic banks and insurers can take much better advantage of their client relationships.Even in this event, however, not all independents would lose out.
Paying off delinquent bills won't improve your credit score much, since all that matters now is that the debt gets paid.
We've learned since then that the frontiers that matter are closer to home.
He has remained a serial winner elsewhere, but he has not won one of the four titles that matter most since January 2010 and has not reached a final at a Grand Slam event for more than a year.
I knew that if I had truly written the novel for myself, I would feel content hiding it away in my desk, since the person that mattered, me, had seen the project to its end.
The story of the years leading up to the crisis (and the years since, for that matter) is that there was too much of the latter and not enough of the former.
And finding it matters: indeed, one could argue that nothing else could ever matter more – since anything at all that matters, in life, only does so as a consequence of its impact on conscious brains.
"A couple of years ago, it was the AS year that mattered since AS grades go on the Ucas form, but now it's important to work equally hard for the A2s – getting that 90% can be the difference between whether or not you make your offer".
For instance, they could not promote justice of any important sort, be benevolent to any significant degree, or exhibit courage of any kind that matters, since life and death issues would not be at stake.
