Too much effort spent on matters of the spirit, on habit and tradition.

He's spent his time on other matters, down in Northridge.

In other cases, she might have spent more time on such matters, but Serenity was a small colony.

Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival.

Sessions has spent most of his time thus far on management issues rather than investigative or ideological matters.

After that a month was spent on procedural matters concerning the Remonstrants.

The various principals in Morris spend two hours a week on such matters of internal diplomacy.

But yesterday he said social workers are spending more time on substance abuse cases and other matters that require them to appear in court.

These staff spend about 1/12th of their time on pre-need matters.

This will then enable plenary to spend more time on more important matters.