Sentences with phrase «not obvious»

Examiners at USPTO, on the other hand, read patent applications, study the technology described in the applications, and assess the state of the art (i.e., the science) to determine whether a proposed invention is new and not obvious.

Herzberg said his stories dealt «with obviousness that is not obvious... the stethoscope as the eternal symbol of doctors, mice as our best animal model, eels as simple, almost boring, river fishes.

He says it is not obvious that conformity would be a defence against so many different threats.

A 14 - year - old boy reviewed a paper on the relationship between the brain's reward system and Facebook likes and concluded: «The research is interesting, but it's not obvious how this knowledge will help with anything.»

Barzilay thinks the software could tackle languages that no human has been able to crack, even if it is not obvious which known tongue it most strongly resembles.

I took this statement to really mean, «Dr. Collins, what may be obvious to you, is not obvious to us.»

It was not obvious that the same color effects would be visible on rough substrates, because interference effects are usually highly sensitive to the angle of light.

It was not an obvious call, because the expectation was that fruit flies didn't have anything to do with the development of furry creatures.

In general, if the invention is new (i.e., it has not been disclosed to the public), is not obvious, and is capable of industrial application, then (with the exception of a few excluded categories) it should be possible to obtain a patent for an invention.

Life's resilience and the sheer diversity of terrestrial organisms were not obvious on July 20, 1976, when the first Viking lander touched down on Mars's Chryse Planitia lowlands, programmed to find life as we then knew it.

«Not understanding the importance of it is one of the reasons that what may seem obvious for other countries is, for some reason, not obvious here.»

If it's not obvious, spell out how it is different to what's been done before.

He says that it is not obvious to him that water cannon is more dangerous than the alternatives such as tasers and batons.

A decent and politically - sensible member of the House, if not the obvious next leader he was sometimes billed as.

The controversy surrounding stipends for elected officials in New York is not specific to the city, as Horner told Gotham Gazette: «At state level, there are a lot of stipends being divied out, many for positions for which there's not obvious work being done.

Given that we are where we are with such a date, is it not obvious that a move towards a strategy of maintaining one or more long - term strategic bases in Afghanistan would show the Taliban the need to negotiate a solution and a settlement?

It means that it is not obvious enough that deposing Brown and replacing him with Alan Johnson or David Miliband would help Labour.

Cato claims something different happened in Kansas, Three Lessons from the Tax Defeat in Kansas — it is not obvious for me where is the spin, but I trust WaPo jornalist who is paid to inform more than a think - tank blogger who is paid to have opinion and agenda.

The reason this is unclear is because it's not obvious whether we can turn legal issues into political ones.

@SoylentGray - while you are correct; the reason for that disconnect is because it is not obvious how communism can work with a form of government that's NOT a dictatorship, in practice.

1) Is it not obvious that the 33 day young government is trying its possible best to give «the dog a bad name to hang it»?

It was appropriate to celebrate his birth with a book; yet it was not obvious how to do so.

«The difficulty of getting things done with larger legislative bodies» is not obvious to me at all.

It is not obvious how Israel would substantially aid Saudi Arabia against Hezbollah in Lebanon, or to diminish Iran's role in Syria.

He's confident that politics as we knew it will return «because things right themselves and the pendulum turns», but when it comes to the Labour Party, Blunkett agrees there is not an obvious route to return to politics as before.

It's not obvious how companies get into the guide (pay - to - play?)

Great work on uncovering all the Bloomberg pals giving money to Donovan but how can we know if there are another dozen of his pals who are giving money but they are not obvious cronies of his (ie not his accountant or worker at bloomberg llp)?

E.politics has had an email subscription option since the beginning, but it was only on the Feedburner subscription page and not obvious at all (only two people have signed up for email, vs 600 - odd RSS subscribers).

But Twitter is different, since it's not obvious when you unsubscribe from a Twitter stream, making it an action without social consequences.

It is also not obvious how large the world is compared to our own local environment.

The nursing accessibility is pretty convienent and not obvious at all.

They tear off in a way that is easy for adults to handle, but not obvious for a toddler.

If we never feed in public or if we only feed under a nursing cover so that it is not obvious what we are doing, how will we ever normalize it as the normal way to feed babies?

To adults it's obvious that three lots of four is the same as four lots of three, but to a young child it's not obvious at all.

Sometimes the cleft palate is not obvious, affecting only the part inside the baby's mouth.

Interestingly, she was diagnosed with a posterior tongue tie (not an obvious one) which basically has the symptoms of you not having enough milk cos the baby is always hungry but actually is just that they can't get the milk out.

Perhaps because the damage inflicted in children who are subject to bullying, or to racial, religious, homo - or transphobic, or ethnic slurs or epithets or threats while participating in youth sports is not obvious, like sexual abuse, or immediately apparent, like a physical injury, its effect is often overlooked and minimized.

Well, as the study pointed out, there are many different reasons — not all obvious at first glance — that might lead to a decision to co-sleep.

(I.e. it is not obvious self - soothing, a sinus infection or similar)

If the cause of the bleeding is not obvious and you can't see where it's coming from, you can give it a few days to see if it goes away.

While Minnesota United has depth on the wing and at forward, there is not an obvious replacement for Molino on the Loons» roster.

Alonso and Pirlo are well known for the creative spark they can provide a team courtesy of their long passing, but Wilshere is not an obvious fit for that skill - set.

Similarly, it is not an obvious feature of Ayew's game and the problematic trade - off between attacking flair and defensive cover is a key challenge for the coaching staff.

That destination was not obvious early on.

So if Petre retires it is not obvious to me that we can pry away a better keeper than we have in Ospina.

I cant see the argument pro / anti wenger, is it not obvious?

Any wins we do get won't appreciably change our draft position, and there's not an obvious franchise QB out there like the Mannings or Luck.

You are clearly an intelligent man but I can not see why this, to me obvious, state of affairs is not obvious to you too.

you are such an ass hole to write or say a thing like this... is it not obvious to you that English referees are a joke wen it comes to all arsenal games... u hardly see them officiate arsenal or treat arsenal like a big club even wen d play a smaller team... and all the smaller teams knows this and that's why the down - look arsenal anytime the come up against them

It's not obvious to pin - point our defensive record as the major weakness in the squad.