Possibly it was a mere matter of language, a concession to the then state of the language--David's wanting their necks to be jumped on so that he could get their attention at first and make them stop and think and understand.
The cynics say that those who take part in social conversation are bound to be either the bores or the bored; and that which you choose to be, is a mere matter of selection.
Is poetry, like heraldry, mere matterof arbitrary regulation?
Whether a thing shall be designated by a plain noun-substantive or by a circumlocution is mere matter of fashion.
But it is a mere matter of favour to admit any man to political power; and no man can justly complain that he is shut out from it.
But it is a mere matter of vocal stratagem, if you understand me.
For example, in one tribe tattooing may be a mere matter of personal liking, of no importance and with no group-judgment upon it; yet certain habits with regard to it may become widespread.
At least a very important art would arise; whether or not we should call it morality is a mere matter of definition.
Morality, to be depended upon, must be not a mere matterof breeding and convention, or of impulse and emotion, but the result of rational insight and conscious resolve.
Whether or not we shall attribute self-control to the lower animals is a mere matter of definition; in the looser sense we may credit with it the hungry fox who does not touch the bait whose dangerous nature he vaguely suspects.
As a mere matter of self-defense we must exercise a close watch over the approaches to this canal; and this means that we must be thoroughly alive to our interests in the Caribbean Sea.
But war has never been a mere matterof men and guns.
All of us must realize, of course, that development in freedom by the newly emerging nations, is nomere matter of obtaining outside financial assistance.
If property is to be made the criterion, it is a total departure from every moral principle of liberty, because it is attaching rights to mere matter, and making man the agent of that matter.
If they are equally right in principle, it is mere matter of opinion which we prefer.
And it is not a mere matter of external organisation.
He wanted, he said, to consult his son, as if in the provinces, forsooth, a rich father consulted a penniless son for any other reason than as a mere matterof form.
But perhaps she may as a mere matter of delicacy be keenly reproaching herself for the mistake which she has committed.
Virtue is often a mere matter of habit or circumstance.
Why, Pelleas, hundreds of good knights have lost life for a mere matter of love; why trouble for the life of a wretch who perhaps never knew what truth meant.
In the antechamber of the palace he was edged into a corner, elbowed and kept there by stouter clients who, as a mere matter of course, shouldered a boy to the wall.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere matter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
