The task of integrating the Citi and Salomon corporate-banking activities, which is now to be accelerated, will fall to Victor Menezes a bright, long-time Citibanker, but not an obvious leader and Mr Carpenter.
Mr Santana Lopes may try again, but it is not obvious that he would improve his party's prospects by winning.
The policies of those years now seem grossly mistaken, but that was not obvious at the time, and every age has its own flawed orthodoxies.
But caution: it may not be obvious to you at the time, but influencers cannot confirm whether their organization will actually buy, even if they give you the impression otherwise.
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Spending is the most obvious but not only form of corporate welfare.
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Vivier got the inspiration for this work while traveling through Asia and Zipangu is the name Marco Polo gave Japan when he discovered it, but Asian influences are not obvious.
Car scrapping looks a good way to help carmakers in principle German car sales surged 40% in March and French ones rose too but it is not so obvious a panacea in Britain.
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But not for the most obvious reason.
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Involving gardeners in a state-of-the-art library is not an obvious step but Dutch architect Patrick Arends said it had become a key element, despite not being part of the initial brief.
Not to belabor the obvious, but usually if you get the questions right you not only have a better chance of getting the right answers, but you probably make the whole process so much easier.
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But his voice is not an obvious match to that of the mysterious al Qaeda envoy.
He said that the solutions were "not obvious" but required a debate over subjects that some politicians considered taboo.
But this obvious handicap did not prevent him hurling the 800-gram spear 81.81 meters -- his personal best, breaking his own national record -- in qualifying in London to join his sport's elite.
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It's not obvious, but it is there -- especially on the notifications pull-down, which is smooth as a whistle as it moves across the main screen, whereas it flickers ever so slightly on the Android 4.0 One X.
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Giving it to the shareholders is the obvious answer, but not necessarily the right one.
It was not blatantly obvious, but it was prudent to switch gears as we did come from 1420 down to 1266.
But threatening Taiwan is not the most obvious way to get it.
But a capital blockade is not physically obvious: There are no naval vessels or Air Force jets visibly interfering with ships and airplanes.
The reasons might not be entirely obvious but, in essence, Spain is telling Europe: humiliate us and the Euro party is well and truly over.
The most obvious but not the most fundamental question about reducing the value of the charitable tax deduction is that of its effect on overall charitable giving.
As this continued I began to feel as if the rubber hand was not an obvious fake but in fact very real and actually attached to me.
It is something that spreads from all of them outward to all of us, because the connections from one moment and one person to the next are not always obvious, but are very real.
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But this resistance has not extended to obvious defensive measures such as dynamiting bridges. (The invasion's speed, coalition warnings, disruption of Iraqi communications, and a lack of initiative among Iraqi officers may explain these rudimentary failings.) Even those troops who defended Baghdad have mainly done so with more fanaticism than technique.
Human-rights groups point out that Indonesia's trouble with terrorism lies not with the courts acquitting obvious villains (none has), but with the authorities not bothering to pursue them.
All this may seem obvious, but it has not saved Americans from nostalgia yet.
And it may not have been obvious, but a couple of years later, flexible technology hit the mainstream.
That seems obvious, but it might not be the most effective starting point.
The judicial sense that this is where it should have ended is not made explicit but it is still obvious.
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