Houston nods, but he claims that those distinctions don't matter anymore.

The imagery of contagion makes it seem as if the distinction doesn't matter.

By the end of this exhibition, you may feel that the distinction between utilitarian and ceremonial doesn't matter much.

Until recent decades, however, this distinction didn't matter much to society.

In the Kremlin's effort to curb terrorism, such distinctions hardly matter.

So that was the reason why Bego thought the distinction between them mattered.

Or do such distinctions simply not matter any more?

Moreover, he said, such distinctions should not matter much to the court.

But that little distinction won't matter, not when this is over.

To someone buying the property for investment, the distinction may matter a lot.