11.   None of this seemed to matter on the House floor Thursday, where Republican leaders whisked the bill through the legislative motions with only a handful of token amendments.

12.   Not that it mattered on Friday, though.

13.   Or on other populist matters either.

14.   Q. Do you discuss matters on the phone, or just supply the answers that appear in the newspaper?

15.   That was why some of the participants expected their interviews to give them a sense of what mattered on the street.

16.   The switches matter on rules that govern debate.

17.   The second shot said everything about his stature in the eyes of the people who mattered on the court.

18.   This did not matter on Sunday.

19.   Though Martin did not want to make too much of the disparity in age, it was obvious that experience mattered on Sunday.

20.   Volume matters on this one.