Sentence examples for told a matter from inspiring English sources

And I've never — I don't want to pretend I've spent years in the occupied territories; all told, a matter of weeks — but I've never had a problem.

The writer Allen Ginsberg once told a protégé seeking subject matter that he should write about "his love for his friends".

It was, he told me, a matter of dolce far niente: the sweetness of doing nothing.

She had been similarly accused in Texas, she told me, a matter that resulted in her deportation years earlier.

When feminists talk about rape, they are not told as a matter of course "but women are always making false rape accusations".

An effort is being made to boost blue-collar pay and thereby stimulate consumption as an economic motor, but this will be, as a party school official told me, "a matter of two five-year plans".

They were, however, told "as a matter of courtesy".

We tell our stories because, for us queer folk, telling is a matter of life and death.

"My situation doesn't really matter," she told a reporter in 1995.

"It will remain a private matter," Makaziwe Mandela told a cluster of journalists on the courthouse steps, refusing to comment further.

But judging from her book's reception in Europe, people seem ready for a comic book about it, especially one told from a matter-of-fact child's perspective.