That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

But it did not matter.

What did it matter??

How did one attach anything to a stone wall, for that matter??

What did it matter to him that the park at the foot of Ash Road stretched beneath elevated trains that roared from the stucco station into the city's center at half-hour intervals??

Well, what did that matter when the sun was shining and there were dreams to dream about??

I said quietly, gaining nerve, ready to ask any question at all, no matter how intimate, ready to be rebuffed, `` Then why did she leave Israel??

Judge Larson explicitly stated, " Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff ".

He did not make Ahimsa a matter of Rule.

Arthur Eddington agreed with Aristotle that the universe did not have a beginning in time, viz., that matter is eternal.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

Hussein had protested that the Arabs of Beirut would greatly oppose isolation from the Arab state or states, but did not bring up the matter of Jerusalem or Palestine.

Within two days following the assassination, Austria-Hungary and Germany advised Serbia that they should open an investigation, but Serbian Foreign Minister Gruic, speaking for Serbia replied, " Nothing had been done so far, and the matter did not concern the Serbian Government ," after which " high words " were spoken on both sides.

Jordanes and Aurelius Victor claim that Herennius Etruscus was killed by an arrow during a skirmish before the outset of the battle and that his father addressed his soldiers as if the loss of his son did not matter.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

The study concluded that knuckle-cracking did not cause hand osteoarthritis, no matter how many years or how often a person cracked their knuckles.

* His belief that matter and thought are eternal, and thus did not originate from God, contradicting the doctrine of Creatio ex nihilo.

As far as we know Diophantus did not affect the lands of the Orient much and how much he affected India is a matter of debate.

Neither Polycarp nor Anicetus persuaded the other, but they did not consider the matter schismatic either, parting in peace and leaving the question unsettled.

There was stronger opposition to the draft constitution on the nature of the Church, which at first did not include the question of papal infallibility, but the majority party in the Council, whose position on this matter was much stronger, brought it forward.

In condensed matter physics, Dyson also did studies in the phase transition of the Ising model in 1 dimension and spin waves.

They dispatched soldiers and what happened next could only be described as a “ bloodbath .” At least nine hundred Indians were killed and it did not matter whether they were women, children or men.

" Greenberg did considerable soul-searching, and discussed the matter with his rabbi ; finally he relented and agreed to play on Rosh Hashanah, but stuck with his decision not to play on Yom Kippur.

It did not prevent the German army from conquering Poland in a matter of weeks with its innovative Blitzkrieg tactics and helped by the Soviet Union's attack on Poland.

Therefore, it is now generally agreed that the Greeks did not generally think of hubris as a religious matter, still less that it was normally punished by the gods.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

A deadlocked senate put the matter before the popular assembly, where it was decided to accept the Mamertines ' request and Appius Claudius Caudex was appointed commander of a military expedition with orders to cross to Messana.

" Thus, by the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon, and by the 5th century the East, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

" Maria's daughter Olga Alexandrovna commented further on the matter, " Yet I am sure that deep in her heart my mother had steeled herself to accept the truth some years before her death.

Thus, some claim that, from the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon ( as it is today ), and that, by the 5th century, the Eastern Church, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

The defendant must accept to plead guilty to the charges ( even if the plea-bargained sentence has some particular matters in further compensation proceedings ), no matter how serious the charges are.

Some subsequent Jewish traditions ( beginning with the Babylonian Jews ) did accept the written targumim as authoritative, and eventually this became a matter of debate.

The President reviewed the matter, then fired Glavis and Pinchot ; Ballinger also tendered his resignation, which would have further served to end the matter were it not for Taft's refusal to accept it.

He argued that there is a distinction between de jure and de facto — that a Catholic was obliged to accept the Church's opinion as to a matter of law ( i. e. as to a matter of doctrine ) but not as to a matter of fact.

" Subsequent to that, he remarked that he is concerned that Aristide will accept the Chavez offer but deflected any discussion of whether Preval himself was prepared to raise the matter with Chavez.

" " The Board and I have seen fit at this time to not accept the resignations, a matter on which we shall have to take action at the special meeting that I am calling for next Monday night to finish much business that we were not able to get to at our regular meeting.

George Washington refused to accept the Tenth Article of the Articles of Capitulation, which granted immunity to American Loyalists, and Cornwallis failed to make any effort to press the matter.

If Americans were unwilling to accept the consequences, no matter how horrifying, of a nuclear exchange, then they certainly had no business proclaiming their willingness to attack.

However, it did allow that " maturer minds may easily understand and accept without harm subject matter in plots which does younger people positive harm.

Although having intended to accept the offer, he declined it because of a family matter.

All political parties in parliament, except the Centre Party, were opposed to the " Racism Paragraph ", but Centre-leader Liv Signe Navarsete stated that she had used her influence to make the Labour Party accept the matter.

To an easy and attractive style and an adequate if not very profound sense of character Mrs. Christie adds an extreme and astonishing ingenuity, nor does it very greatly matter that it is quite impossible to accept the groundwork of her tale or to suppose that any stalking-horse would behave so invariably so exactly as required.

In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency ( usually notes above $ 20 ) as a matter of policy.

Anand was denied an honorary doctorate from University of Hyderabad because of confusion over his citizenship status, however later Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development apologised and said " There is no issue on the matter as Anand has agreed to accept the degree at a convenient time depending on his availability ".< ref >

La Repubblica specified that Italian justice has recognized the innocence of all people close to the Hyperion School However it is only a matter of conjunctures to see any relation between this 2005 intervention in favor of an Emmaus companion and his support in the 1980s for strong guarantees in favor of Italian political refugees, since the philosophy of the Emmaus movement in itself is to accept anyone willing to work in the community at helping others, without any restrictions concerning one's individual past.

Christians however neither recognize the Qur ' an as a genuine book of divine revelation, nor agree with its assessment of Jesus as a mere prophet, on par with Muhammad, nor for that matter accept that Muhammad was a genuine prophet.

She was undeterred by criticism about her firm stand against abortion and divorce stating, " No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.