Sentence examples for that once mattered from inspiring English sources

All the decisions that once mattered so much, don't.

Typical for many of his generation, Mr. D'Souza, it turned out, had journeyed from one religion to another, disregarding boundaries that once mattered.

Why not create a national baseball landmark society to protect the places that still exist and mark those that once mattered?

There is probably no more unjustly neglected town in these islands; there is nowhere of comparable size – 77,000 people – that has such a rich architectural, industrial and social history and that once mattered so much to the world.

Generational conflicts that once mattered little can prove fatal when speed and decisiveness are needed.A good place to see the impact of competition from China is around the towns of Busto Arsizio and Gallarate, best known today for Malpensa, a sprawling international airport near Milan through which the fashion industry flocks for regular trade fairs at the recently completed fairground.

Things that once mattered may no longer be a priority.

Some Icelandic authorities have suggested that once matters stabilize, the country should give up having an independent currency, and instead either adopt the euro outright or peg the value of the krona firmly to that of the euro.

The view is "mechanical" in the sense that it denies that each living thing was produced, like an artifact, in accordance with a specific intention, and allows instead that once matter is endowed with life and organization it has the power to produce other living things.

Which network you prefer doesn't matter, until it matters, later, that it once mattered.

As that progression suggests, religion, which once mattered deeply, has fallen out of the conversation.

We also find that, once dark matter is taken into account, global net asset positions appear to be relatively stable.