Irina, from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, said Russians have been paying attention to the election campaign because it matters who leads a country as powerful as the United States.
It wants to confront China because it thinks it matters a lot.
To put it crudely, the administration is prepared to disagree with Russia because it thinks it hardly matters.
That date also matters because it is when Dutch voters go to the polls.
What Michelle Obama wears also matters because it's history, said Nicole Phelps, executive editor of Style.com.
"We know it matters because Friday is our free day, and that's our busiest day, " she said.
This matters because it suggests doctors have been looking in the wrong place for explanations of these diseases.
Expansion of the subscriber base matters because it enables NFLX to put more units through an expanding-margin business model.
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But the talk matters because it frames the political debate on the issue.
This strike matters because it is the first since the Conservative Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, came to power in June.
It matters because life isn't an Etch A Sketch and the currency that determines an election should be a candidate's ideas.
It matters because the Government is supposed to have ethical guidelines for where we sell arms and whose hands they fall into.
It matters because it highlights three big themes for the global economy that I suspect we will keep coming back to in 2013.
It matters because the British security services clearly knew about him.
What a company tells its people matters because it affects behavior.
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The hacking scandal matters because it makes it seem that, in Britain, some people are above the law, and others are content for them to be so.
It matters because the idiotic actions of 11 agents who forgot who they are and what their badge stands for deeply affects every active duty agent and tens of thousands of retired agents.
Location information matters because it pays well.
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Well, it matters because the government wants to spend billions of pounds on roads, based on the assumption that there will be a 44% rise in traffic levels by 2035, mainly because of a big rise in the population.
But it matters also because Samsung is lagging in the tablet market, not in smartphones.
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Having a national brand matters, because it makes products emerging from that nation more meaningful.
This payment model matters, because it arguably makes Google and ratings agencies less accountable to consumers of information.
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It matters, because the dollar amount involved added a whopping 26 levels.
But others may not have bothered to find out where he stands on abortion because they do not think it matters much.
It matters partly because, of course, Samsung wants to sell and without the big fanfare it is going to rely on deals and discounts.
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Sure -- not that it matters, because let's be honest, there isn't a chance in hell that's going to be happening any time soon.
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Now this matters, because it is the first time that an EU institution has hinted that there is a realistic possibility of default by Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
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