Sentences with phrase «stating the obvious when»

Senator Neil Breslin is only stating the obvious when he indicates that the unelected David Paterson has been an absolute, total failure as governor.

So we won't state the obvious when it comes to questions about the Man of Steel's fate.

Of course, I'm stating the obvious when I point out that turning a well - known literary work into a film can be a tricky thing.

And market analysts only stated the obvious when they noted that traders apparently brushed off the negative German news.

It seems to me that I am stating the obvious when I point out that the seventh year of a strong bull market is not the best time to buy any stocks.

Not exact matches

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

When you want others to trust you, don't be afraid to state the obvious — remind them that they can trust you.

So Antonio Neri, executive vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, was really stating the obvious on Tuesday when he described the market for server chips as being «ready for disruption.»

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?

They are too obvious, too shallow; they do not designate what comes out — stumbling, embarrassed, and often gestured rather than stated — when one observes and listens with attention.

The answer is obvious when stated that way.

Although incredibly obvious once stated, it did challenge my view on global food security as I have often been quick to think «how can we help developing countries with food waste» when in fact this issue is much closer to home and in fact is in our own fridges!

Watching 2017 Penn State, it's not obvious you're looking at a guy who could be the next NFL star TE, whereas Howard had flashes for Alabama, like when they'd suddenly start throwing to him in a Playoff game.

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.

People have no problem pointing the finger at Mesut or Santi when they don't run as hard as Jack and Aaron do — despite the fact they're being played out of position — yet the moment that I state the obvious that Mesut and Santi are better than Jack and Aaron as ACMs it's an uproar.

Fatboy Gooney: I know I stated the obvious but this big money transfer talk is annoying specially when we shoot ourselves in the foot to begin with.

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.

Wenger has gotten u to accept and now support mediocrity and in turn you want everyone to follow suit so when fans see through the mediocrity and state the obvious you dillusional arsene fc fans see it as bashing wenger or not supporting the club and that's just not the case.

We love when someone like Seahawks receiver / return man Tyler Lockett finds success as a middle - round pick because it seemed obvious Lockett would succeed when he posted huge numbers at Kansas State despite opposing defenses knowing he was the only real downfield threat.

There's not need to be sentimental when stating things that obvious.

It seems so obvious to me that a baby needs to be near their mother / parents when they are in their most vulnerable state.

Our opinion: when a state gives away a product and says you can use it for your baby to sleep in, that is an obvious endorsement that carries weight with parents.

While Schneiderman was aggressive in his crusade against Trump, he was fairly hands - off when it came to the very obvious corruption in New York state government.

Both Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, however, still have to satisfy high expectations when it comes to day - to - day government, the first minister's personal pledge to close the attainment gap in the state school sector, and the obvious desire among many of her members and supporters for another independence referendum.

«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»

«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.»

He said, «The truth is that Captain Iheanacho for obvious political reasons has continued to sustain his media attacks against the governor and the few opponents of the government in the state have leveraged on that to be giving the impression that Okorocha and Iheanacho are at war, when they are not.»

That's what the Legislature and governor have been doing for decades when it comes to the state budget, ignoring the obvious signs of trouble to the point where the state is close to a financial breakdown — «fundamentally bankrupt» as the governor calls it.

It isn't necessary to believe that Lady Thatcher was perfect in all her actions and utterances (and she wasn't) to state the obvious: that the Conservatives have done a hell of a lot worse since she left than they did when she was in charge, and that they still seem not to have learned the lessons of that.

Let's begin by stating the obvious for men and women — we all want to feel wanted, so it feels good when someone takes action to win you over.

I've stated before that the art style of earlier Silent Hill comics left me confused on just where and when the characters were but given how detailed Jone's background are and Spicer's obvious color palette shift I had no trouble weaving between Anne's past, present an Otherworldly nightmares.

Now we truly have kiddie console with an infantile audience who won't buy anything over pg 13, and then turn around and complain when developers state the obvious that there is no market for non kiddie games on the Wii U.

To state what should be obvious but doesn't seem to be: When it comes to attendance, we should probably hold teachers to a higher standard than we hold at - risk teens.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

So when the California Charter Schools Association produced a study last week showing the obvious - that charters provide a ray of hope to families trapped in some of the state's worst traditional public schools - the response was predictably divided: The families who send their children to charters weren't one bit surprised.

The United States faces a shortage of high - quality school leaders at a time when the importance of principals is more obvious than ever.

For obvious reasons, when a federal law is passed, such as one mandating annual tests, all states and districts are legally compelled to comply.

Four years later, when Audi decided to create a customer racing operation of its own in the United States, Kettler was the obvious choice to put it together.

Issuetastic fiction that turns up - to - date, politically loaded topical material into powerful works of stating the obvious whose aim is to educate the Uninformed or Casually Interested Westerner in the ways of another culture at a time when that culture or nation is under scrutiny, or has the western gaze upon it and needs to answer for itself in an accessible and heart - tugging manner.

That may seem obvious when stated, but every year agents receive thousands of submissions for work that does not have national appeal, and does not deserve shelf space at every chain bookstore in the country.

But the data was crystal clear; the only puzzling part is that when comparing the data with the stated mission of Libranda — that is, to be at vanguard of digitization services and distribution in Spain — the results are obvious: Libranda's shareholders» inclination for digital books is, at its best, lukewarm.

In essence the results are the same but it should be quite obvious when you state it as «cyclical companies in downturns will turn up and cyclical companies in upturns will eventually turn down.»

That became obvious when Waters and his team studied information on the oldest living pet dogs in the United States.

Concern over the blue crane began in the early 1990s when it became obvious they were on the decline — their numbers had dwindled in the northern Free State, KwaZulu Natal, the Eastern Cape and the former Transvaal by as much as 90 %, and they had almost disappeared from the Transkei, Lesotho and Swaziland.

This might seem like stating the obvious, but it's so often overlooked by newcomers to watercolour painting and underlines the point I made when adding the «wrong» sky to Gill Farquharson's Venetian scene.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

To resort to an obvious analogy, if we did not know that water boiled it would come as a bit of a surprise when it happened for the first time, especially since it takes just a small amount of heat to go from a relatively stable state to a wildly unstable one.

It amazes me that someone can publish a paper based on stating the obvious — there are times when there is no wind!

Johnson clearly states that the strongest UHI is indeed at night on cloudless windless conditions — Parker is simply stating the obvious assumption that if there is a UHI impact on trend, one would expect to see it when UHI effects are strongest, and Johnson does indeed say that cloudless windless nights are when UHI is strongest.

When I have stated obvious truth that you can not dispute then you put words in my mouth that I would not utter and then attack your invention as though I had said it.