The matches in New York and Los Angeles won't count for much more than pride.
The new environment suggests that guanxi, or personal connections, will no longer count for much.
But he soon learned that his Associates Degree didn't count for much with employers.
And India's demographic dividend will not count for much if those new workers are unemployable.
The reason: China's main manufacturing advantage cheap labour does not count for much in cars these days.
Countries such as Macedonia and Albania, not to mention Serbia, do not count for much in Croatia's capital.
Will a few snubs from abroad, and an occasional rebuke, count for much with Mr Putin and his generals?
So does that mean the annual human rights report from Washington and the conference in Vienna don't count for much?
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But the eurozone's strengths do not count for much, if it cannot resolve its internal imbalances without wreaking mayhem in global markets.
But, then again, they are unlikely to count for much compared with the better products and performance increasingly being demanded by clients.
Of course, none of these achievements will count for much if the euro zone collapses, bringing about economic chaos and political turmoil.
But that argument doesn't count for much with the guy who counts at the moment, a politician who has thrived despite taking career-killing risks.
Likewise, Cole has scored 10 times for England, has more than 50 caps for his country and has been to two World Cups, but I'm not sure that will count for much in Capello's eyes.
The way to shake up Poland's crony capitalism is not by selectively hunting down the cronies, but by making it such an open, liberal and competitive society that the old connections no longer count for much.
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Milan is a wealthy and worldly city where appearances count for much, and the exquisitely dressed inhabitants have raised the Italian preoccupation with la bella figura being impeccably dressed and groomed to a high art.
Known as equivalent qualifications, some of these count for as much as four or even six GCSEs.
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Nagel never explains why his intuition should count for so much here.
This small Central American country of 6m people barely the size of Massachusetts may not count for quite as much as Spain, but it still has boots on the ground in Iraq, where it has contributed a small, but symbolically important, force.
What I used to count on for downtime no longer has so much down in it.
The charge of assisting terrorists carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison for each count -- and would be a much less serious offense than treason, which could carry the death penalty.
Accordingly, it is far more likely that the nation will see a pigheaded GOP as being responsible for denying them much of the benefits they count upon.
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She doesn't have much to count on when it comes to retirement except for Social Security.
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That gave the Jets a much shorter field to work with, and they made it count when Sanchez found Burress for a 14-yard score to knot the game at 14 just before the half.
Warning: Some private colleges, when doling out their own aid dollars, count 529 savings accounts much more heavily, expecting the student to spend 35% of the balance each year for college, as with money held in the student's name.
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