The calculation is that this will prove politically popular (probably true) while making it easier to implement spending cuts down the road (less obvious).

Making it obvious that it is Ahmadinejad s policies that are isolating Iran would strengthen the still fragile anti Ahmadinejad alliance of pragmatic conservatives and reformers, which has lately become more vocal.

It became obvious that box office returns of very low budget pornographic films could fund further advances in the technical and production values of porn, making it extremely competitive with Hollywood movies.

It seems to me to be quite obvious.

Since China is the obvious market for these minerals, it would make sense for China to encourage continued American engagement by making a significant contribution to the cost of training the Afghan army.

So it was intuitive and obvious. Now what about evolution?

It is here where the influence of nationalism becomes obvious.

But it is equally obvious that, as the European Parliament s Resolution of February 20 puts it, the Treaty of Lisbon is a substantial improvement on the existing Treaties, which will bring more democratic accountability to the Union and enhance its decision making.

But, from the outset, it was obvious that there was something horribly wrong with it.

It is time for New Year's resolutions, and this year's are obvious.

So it is not obvious to many people why they are voting.

So it should be obvious that maintaining the status quo is intolerable.

Nor is it obvious that the bankers suffered from more adverse publicity.

That may seem like an obvious point, but it is not universally accepted.

But it is still obvious that the entire party knew who Stalin was.

It became an obvious choice, I had to go and report from there.

So he cast down his rod , and lo ! it was an obvious serpent ,

So he cast down his rod , and lo ! it was an obvious serpent ,

It is obvious that, domestically, we do not have anything like such resources.

Voting on such an issue is the most obvious way of resolving it.

Once again it can be said that such a reservation states the obvious.

It is regrettable that this obvious threat has been neglected in the report.

Man That's right. And it seemed obvious to me that it was probably the number of people on it.

But it is not immediately obvious whether it is Schroeder licking Putin s boots nowadays or vice versa.

Obvious examples abound.

It is blatantly obvious that for Russia s elites, weakness and cooperation are mutually exclusive.

It is obvious from the above that the insured are entitled to health insurance.

From this departure, it is obvious that the role of women is always subordinate.

It all started making sense.

It was not obvious at the time that it had been a success in terms of substantive policies.

Well, it's obvious now.

The inequities are obvious.

How obvious is that?

Germany s exceptionalism is obvious.

The reason is obvious.

It appears to be a statement of the obvious unacceptable disasters require extraordinary counter measures.

WARSAW One merit of the Berlin Wall was that it made obvious where Europe ended.

It should have been obvious that one couldn t reduce everything to a single number, GDP.

The heart of the matter is this it is obvious that nuclear weapons are immoral.

But inflation targeting was never an obvious concept, and the financial crisis has discredited it.

It is obvious that politicians and bankers made grave errors that contributed to the current crisis.

It is obvious that those new arrivals will have an impact on the ICTY completion strategy.

It is obvious that a scenario such as that involves timely, sustained and well targeted resources.

It is obvious that, as difficult as peacekeeping is, it does not hold the subtleties and challenges that peacebuilding entails.

The Syrian Arab Republic would have been not only the obvious suspect, but also the obvious loser.