But it matters also because Samsung is lagging in the tablet market, not in smartphones.

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It may not seem a big difference, but it matters when it's a measure of the whole economy's output.

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But it matters when a movement conservative such as Pennsylvania Republican Sen.

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But it matters even more to people on the ground, eager, perhaps desperate to make their case before the authorities, their boss or their family.

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It might seem like a silly distinction, but it matters.

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But it matters less than in the past.

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But it matters enormously to China's future.

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The complications for this appropriate adult aren't hard to predict, but it hardly matters.

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Separately, of 786 non-Catholics polled, 23 percent said the choice of the next pope matters to them personally, but 76 percent said it matters to the world.

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Adrian Searle, The Guardian's art critic told BBC News Online that he would "hate to speculate" as to the successor, but added that it matters "a great deal" who they choose.

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As Afghanistan has shown, it can (and often should) be unilateralist in military matters, but it needs a more co-operative, even consensual approach for other purposes, including diplomacy, intelligence-gathering, financial tracking and above all in the battle for hearts, minds and ideas.

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The Street may not love the financial results Facebook just announced for the fourth quarter of 2012, but in the area it matters most, the blue giant is doing a lot better than was previously known.

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His strength is legendary, but when it comes to matters of love, he's... well, impotent. (Hercules is also without benefit of modern pharmacology.) He does, however, have the goddess Venus at his disposal, and she's anxious to help him with his love life.

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Parenting matters, but it does not determine personality in the way that some had thought.

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Not that I think it matters, but, in fact, I have been in the classroom.

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But size matters little when it comes to eating the crabs at the end of the safari.

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But the talk matters because it frames the political debate on the issue.

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Scottish Conservative Party leader, Annabel Goldie, said the legislative programme "did not lack quantity", but it was "quality which matters".

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Of course it matters, but not as much as it used to.

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But it is the principle that matters.

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But increasingly, none of it matters.

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The Royal Household initially said on Wednesday it wouldn't comment on judicial matters, but later in the day announced that it was surprised that the judge -- who last year said in an order that there was insufficient evidence to name the princess as a suspect -- had changed his mind.

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But DVI says it dealt with these matters by adopting some of Deloitte's recommendations.

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That may turn out to be irrelevant but it is equally plausible that that matters.

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Not that it necessarily matters, but these guys were not really trying to get away with anything very nasty.

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But it is not only size that matters.

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So bipartisanship still matters, but is it possible?

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But it is proving disastrous in economic matters.

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But the bigger question is whether it matters.

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But it offers its highest grades on personal matters like honesty and values, versus leadership or professional questions such as being firm and decisive, or appointing qualified people.

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