We know that giving you up wouldn't change matters a bit.

This is their real goal, and winning a couple of elections isn't going to change matters.

Which, as it turned out, would have changed matters dramatically.

Until they can answer that, he said, no war will change matters.

It was strange, though, how a split second could change matters all about.

The main point is that we can do nothing to change matters.

And that fact does not change matters in the least.

But she could not see how to change matters now, and there was no point letting them run off into the countryside.

You are, effectively, trapped here, and even I haven't the power to change matters.

"There are those in his own household who would change matters."