Here is what mattered most: Both candidates recognized the Hispanic vote is crucial and deserves attention.
But Mr Cheney said it was underground water that mattered most for long-term supply.
Even when they were dogged by injuries, this team pulled together when it mattered most.
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The Heat, realizing they needed more, had the ability to turn things up a notch when it mattered most.
For a little while last Friday, however, what mattered most in New York wasn't the state of the campaign.
When it mattered most, an entire generation of Americans showed the finest qualities of our nation and of humanity.
And they once again came up with the goods when it mattered most.
Law was furious that having got so close, his side failed to find their best form when it mattered most.
This approach, which created a highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce, made sense in a world where what you did mattered most.
Microsoft says it polled 50, 000 people about the phone features that mattered most to them and baked all the necessary services into KIN.
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Scottish captain Jason White admitted that it had not been the most attractive of games but getting the result was what mattered most.
He describes his relationships with the four women, apart from his mother (well, sort of apart from her), who have mattered most to him.
In not applying a performance objective to fear and stress, many programs (including basic training and others) gave up a piece of what mattered most.
What mattered most was the eloquent body language of the actors.
What mattered most to him was that a piece was simple and honest, that it worked, and that it was good enough to put his name to.
What gave him particular pleasure was the manipulation of complex relationships and dependencies to control how the art of architecture was used where he thought it mattered most.
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But on Sunday, with Anthony off target and Smith suspended, the Knicks didn't generate enough offense when it mattered most and lost 97-90 in overtime at TD Garden.
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The campaign promise that mattered most to Indians was not swadeshi but suraj, good government, a break with the self-absorbed and corrupt governance with which Indians are familiar.
"For almost all, family and friends mattered most, " Brooks wrote.
And then there were the people who mattered most: Bush was not keen about subjecting his teenage daughters to the scrutiny that he and his siblings had endured in the 1970s and '80s.
This time they saved some of their most horrendous calls for when it mattered most, and in the process they handed the Seattle Seahawks a win that most viewers will agree was not deserved.
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In India in 1980, Indira Gandhi removed shackles from enterprises and began sending pro-business signals, a decade before more formal reforms (although there is a hot debate about which set of policies mattered most).
Just a few months ago, the Treasury was telling me, in no uncertain terms, that what mattered most was that the taxpayer should receive the maximum possible financial return from the eventual privatisation of the Rock.
Referee Alain Rolland lectured rival captains Tom Willis and Yannick Jauzion following a late dust-up involving several players, but he opted against brandishing any cards, Toulouse having inflicted their punishment where it mattered most - on the scoreboard.
The ball thudded to the ground, and this much was clear: Despite Brady's three previous championships, there remains one team he has not beaten when it has mattered most, one team that can reduce the coolest quarterback of his generation to desperation and defeat.
Unfortunately, it sounds like both of Fujitsu's latest LifeBooks underperformed in the areas that mattered most, and as PCMag put it, shoving a full-fledged PC (with an integrated optical drive, no less) into a three- to four-pound frame requires quite a few tradeoffs.
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