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what and mattered
More likely, you simply told yourself, as you handed us the book, that it mattered little what we incanted providing we underwent the discipline of incantation.
In war, on a night like this, it was only the outward emotions that mattered, what could be flung out into the darkness to damage others.
On the day of the Mid-Staffordshire by-election, Powell claimed that the government should admit that the community charge was " a disaster " and that what mattered most to the people of Mid-Staffordshire was the question of who should govern Britain and that only the Conservative Party was advocating that the British should govern themselves.
For Rosenberg religious doctrine was not important ; what mattered was that a belief should serve the interests of the Nordic race, connecting the individual to his racial nature.
For Chandler the plot was almost secondary, what really mattered was the atmosphere and the characters.
During colonial times, what ultimately mattered for economic growth were the institutions and systems of government imported through colonization.
Streicher's arguments were primitive, vulgar, and crude, but he believed in what he said and was an uninhibited, wild agitator, to whom masses would listen, which was what mattered to the party.
The effects of this cultural revival, however, were largely limited to a small group of court literati: " it had a spectacular effect on education and culture in Francia, a debatable effect on artistic endeavors, and an unmeasurable effect on what mattered most to the Carolingians, the moral regeneration of society ," John Contreni observes.
In Trevor-Roper's opinion, what really mattered about the Hossbach Memorandum was that Hitler clearly expressed an intention to go to war sooner rather than later and it was Hitler's intentions rather than his plans at the time which mattered.
Myth describes the Sacred's first appearance ; therefore, the mythical age is sacred time, the only time of value: " primitive man was interested only in the beginnings [...] to him it mattered little what had happened to himself, or to others like him, in more or less distant times ".
For the purpose of the criminal law, what mattered was whether Lindon believed that his actions were reasonable.
: I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast.
The most intriguing aspect of the study's findings is that what mattered most was not the number of protest participants, but the amount of media coverage the event received.
During the 1995 referendum he caused an uproar when it was reported by columnist Chantal Hébert in the La Presse newspaper that despite the guarantee of an offer of partnership with the rest of Canada before declaring sovereignty following a " Yes " vote, Parizeau had told a group of foreign diplomats that what mattered most was to get a majority vote from Quebec citizens for the proposal to secede from Canada because with that, Quebecers would be trapped " lobsters thrown into boiling water ".
But what I would like to emphasize once more is that compassion and commiseration were at first of very little importance in attracting me to the representation of proletarian life ; what mattered was simply that I found it beautiful.
Whether this was widely popular among the mainly peasant population, is debatable ; clearly, however, what mattered most to Ruthenians was not which country they would join, but that they be granted autonomy within it.
.... because it doesn't really matter .... what mattered was achieved.
It mattered less what speed riders competed than the order in which they crossed the line.
" Producer-director Bert I. Gordon said he did not care whether reviews were bad ; what mattered was whether people went to see the film: " The movie audience these days consists almost entirely of teenagers.
No matter what Perry was exposed to, she always returned to her home and family for inspiration – not because that was all that was available to her, but because it was the part of her life that mattered to her most.
However, what mattered was how the tanks were used, and French command distributed half of its tanks among independent Bataillons de Chars de Combat ( battle tank battalions ) for infantry support, rendering them tied to decision-making of the local army commanders.

what and was
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
He knew now what he was up against.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

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