Sentences with phrase «from stating the obvious»

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«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

Cobinhood, cleverly derived from the combination of words «coin» and «Robin Hood» (as stated by Captain Obvious!)

To state the profoundly obvious, the only thing missing from these expectations are the unexpected, the so - called surprises we will see.

From sketchy pyramid schemes to unknown «experts» stating little more than the obvious, there's plenty of noise out there to distract you from the real business of starting, and growing, your dream businFrom sketchy pyramid schemes to unknown «experts» stating little more than the obvious, there's plenty of noise out there to distract you from the real business of starting, and growing, your dream businfrom the real business of starting, and growing, your dream business.

With a Canadian unemployment rate that increased 46.6 % from 5.8 % in September 2007 to 8.5 % in December 2009, it may be stating the obvious that creating new jobs is a priority for all levels of government, as well as for those affected by unemployment.

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

I am amazed that people can't see the obvious, the bible is not a timeless book of laws from an omniscient being, it is a man made docu ment based on the moral, technological, and scientific state of knowledge millennia ago.

But the most obvious candidate for reparations, as James Forman had foreseen in 1969, would be the descendants of the African - Americans who, from 1619 until 1865, had been legally enslaved in the United States.

Obvious: I am arguing against Mark and Daniels assertion that the sole intent of the first amendment is to prohibit the Government from creating a state religion.

Would it be a good idea for me to state the obvious over and over again only to be put in harms way with no support from my gov» t or the US gov» t or Indian gov» t for that matter?

But when he got home from work, his self - esteem was a bit frazzled from the day; consequently, when Karen opened the subject, Jack immediately stated curtly, «Why don't you stop worrying about that and just do the obvious thing?

The latest example of experts stating the obvious, having expended much time and money «proving» it, emerged from research published in the journal Demography....

In light of the human rights standards — rights that have received almost unanimous acceptance from the UN member states — it is becoming obvious to the average person that planning a nuclear war against a neighboring country is a horrendous crime against all humanity.

The secular and sacred lines are drawn clearly, so that in multireligious India «this can mean either a fundamental separation of the state from religious activity and affiliation, or impartial state involvement on issues relating to religious interests of different communities.52 The problem with this school of thought from the point of view of religious (Christian) and ethnocultural (Dalit and Adivasi) minorities is obvious.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of every member of the human family.

Disclaimer (aka stating the obvious): I'm not an expert by any means, so please don't trust some random person from the internet before seeking advice from your pediatrician and / or allergist.

That's a lot of words to state the obvious: the Penguins had been able to string together big moments from big players when they needed them most.

You are also ridiculous when you state anyone who has a view different from yours makes them a Spuds fan.Comes across as pathetic mate to be honest when TMJW was only stating the obvious.

Now this, I think, is where many of the club's detractors, and of course Wenger's too, simply overlook a simple and obvious fact — the majority of the top clubs, and some of those in the second tier, from whom we want to buy relevant top players, are owned by incredibly rich men, known as oligarchs for a good reason, or bottomless money pits, known as state - owned clubs, and we all know who they are, simply do not need the money, however much is offered.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Without any stats to back my speculations, here are a few reasons why I would expect it to be that way: Stating the obvious but recent immigration to Europe included many people from countries where Islam is an important component of the culture (North Africa, West Africa, Turkey...) Christianity is on the retreat and losing ground to irreligion.

«One should not have to visit a prison to hear from leading political figures,» said the OSCE representative, stating the obvious fact, after being denied by the authorities to see Mrs Tymoshenko in jail.

«It is obvious to everyone that neighbouring states, especially South Africa, have most to lose from instability in Zimbabwe and most to gain from change.

It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate money to Make the Road.

«I have also petitioned the National Judicial Council, NJC over the conduct of the trial judge, Who doubles as the, Chief Judge of the state for her obvious bias against me stemming from her utterances in the open court.

Lawmakers snubbed all of his proposals except the most obvious one: a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent public officials convicted of corruption from collecting state pensions.

«As a state legislature, and in coordination with the Governor, we must fight for real, lasting tax reform because it is painfully obvious that middle America is paying the bills while the super wealthy benefit from loopholes and the 40 % on the lower spectrum pay nothing at all.»

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

On his part, Mansard's Chief Client Officer, Mr Tosin Runsewe said the courtesy visit to Governor Ambode, apart from the partnership on healthcare delivery, was also to appreciate all the State Government has been doing in the last two years to revamp physical infrastructure in the State, adding that it was obvious that a lot had been done in scaling up ease of doing business and security.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

Pat Nemeth from the Cleveland Hill district says it's obvious there is a problem and he says he knows what he would tell State Education Commissioner John King.

«Rather, it is a repeated tendency of the State to delay, blunt, or otherwise prevent us here locally from taking action when we see obvious signs of fraud, abuse or misapplication of taxpayer funds that is the problem.»

One screamingly obvious question is «why would people be consistently moving from traditionally Democratic states to traditionally Republican states?»

He was in obvious shock and he immediately took me upstairs to the office of an assistant commissioner of police who in turn said he got a call from the state commissioner of police regarding my ordeal.

What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks is far from obvious in the present state of climate science.

«What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks, during which the vast majority of tornado - related fatalities occur, is far from obvious in the present state of climate science,» said Cohen, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor at Rockefeller University and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who conducted the research while a visiting scholar in UChicago's Department of Statistics.

Because they are less obvious its harder to catch delayed allergic reactions and therefore we may be in a constant state inflammation and with autoimmune problems from these reactions.

And, even though they may mess up your diet, his sweet offering may have a not - so - obvious benefit — a recent study from Ohio State University found that keeping your blood sugar steady is key for minimizing spats.

never having the pleasure to visit the southern states, you'll have to share what you love about things that seem obvious, looking at the neighborhood and home I think, jeepers California needs to take some notes from AL..

Based on the inputs received from leading dating experts, we have composed a list of the most obvious reasons that have led to the popularity of sugar daddy sites in countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Germany, among others:

It's a movie starring a one - track - minded hard - on and a mime from the Garden State, an obvious joke that even this movie manages to point out in one of its many «'' wink - wink, nudge - nudge,»» asides.

As fumbling and plain as they sound, even if those three statements come from the «Stating the Obvious» lecture on the first day of Psychology 101, there is truth to the assignments.

It's obvious Argento is not from our neck of the woods (Jenifer's setting is not an actual place so much as it is a dislocation), but whatever alienation he may feel shooting films and directing actors in the United States gives films like Trauma, The Black Cat, and now Jenifer an interestingly perverse flavor.

As he edges further and further from the church he'd once cocooned himself in, Toller sees his body degrade more rapidly, an obvious but effective metaphor for the miserable state of the world.

Waiting eagerly for Bayo2 and X, Zelda ofcourse also but that'll likely take more then a year from now to release, as N States they won't show Zelda U until this e3 in June, it's pretty obvious the game is nowhere close near finalization and so won't come until 2015.

To suggest that these movies operate within the infinitely self - contained worlds of pastiche is to state the obvious, but it is worth noting that their visual setpieces — no matter how technically polished — are increasingly abstracted from anything topical.

It is glaringly obvious that if a society does not grant you rights, so that a state does not have to even deny them to prevent you from possessing them, then the fact that they are somewhat expressly guaranteed in international law, is useless.

To the extent that panel participants knew their work was likely to be used to advocate for additional funding for the state's public schools (or that panel participants» predispositions reflect CBE's and / or KEA's mission and values), there is an obvious bias injected into the Verstegen and Associates study from its inception.

Our sample of states ranges from Texas, which for obvious reasons was the inspiration for NCLB's view of accountability, to New Hampshire, which has yet to even begin rating schools based on their performance.