Sentence examples for whit from inspiring English sources

After a nervous breakdown, he returned home to Sid, a provincial nowhere now on the border between Serbia and Croatia, then restless neighbours in a fragile new nation-state.Growing civil discord and the approach of world war seem not to have concerned Sumanovic one whit, not artistically at least.

But it won't matter a whit that, as Mr Fishkin says, "there is a strong case that it is all dicta", if the same court majority is determined to build something on its foundations.

In a world where abortion past, say, the 20th week of gestation was totally prohibited, people who currently consider themselves anti-abortion or hold that abortion involves wrongful killing might find themselves on the opposite side of the "choice/life" dichotomy without changing their substantive views one whit.(Photo credit: AFP).

Fine examples include Paul Edward's essay, "My Death" in the "Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy" (1966) and Thomas Nagel's reply to Lucretius's reassuring claim that "death matters not a whit" in "Mortal Questions" (1985).

Sanctions and isolation work least well against a regime that cares not a whit for its people.

That is, if every Native American on the continent were to take offense at the term "redskin" today, that would not matter a whit.

However, if you are arguing that we should continue to inflict hardship on the people of a regime that we claim cares not a whit for them, then I would disagree with you.According to Unicef, nine years of economic warfare against Iraq has seen a doubling of child- and infant-mortality rates.

Even if rights are written by God into the book of nature, it doesn't make a whit of difference unless enough of us happen to agree about which rights of what shape are "out there".

All of these encountered Father Lancelote, greyer with the years but not a whit less frisky or influential, and just as prone to take out his guitar and start strumming.Related topics Hong Kong China East Asia MacauHis broad smile summed up the tolerance of Macau, a place to which, when trouble flared anywhere in East Asia, anyone could come.

Mr Humphrys put a good question to him about media ownership, to whit: Ed Miliband wants News International broken up, so who is going to support the loss-making broadsheets?

In one sense, this matters not a whit.