While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.
But the juxtaposition of self-evident with self-executing sets forth a challenge that every executive faces.
To think this is self-evident is to misunderstand who's riding roughshod over public pensions.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, just words?
There's a self-evident truth about ballplayers with mustaches: Ballplayers with mustaches love talking about mustaches.
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Greenpeace, for instance, says that its disapproval is self-evident, and resents being asked to express it.
"I think it is pretty self-evident what will happen if they don't change the tune, " he said.
Year after year, visionary women met and marched and mobilized to prove what should have been self-evident.
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Writing in the Emergency Medicine Journal, the researchers said it was self-evident that the current situation was unsafe.
Occasionally, the Kauffman Index can thwart conventional wisdom and seemingly self-evident logic by virtue of its demographic breakdowns.
Others, like "The Vertical Hour, " are deeply personal domestic dramas with a self-evident but (mostly) unobtrusive political context.
Something that is self-evident needs no opinion or philosophy to determine its veracity.
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The case seems self-evident for Ireland and Spain, where the European Central Bank was setting a one-size-fits-all monetary policy.
Nowadays that seems self-evident: Apple's iPod and Motorola's Razr succeed as much for their shape as for their innards.
The benefits of membership may seem self-evident, but that may not be enough to sustain near-universal Europhilia for ever.
His logic was, at least to him, self-evident: the state, he claimed, was already spending ten per cent of its G.
If said conclusion is not self-evident to you, well, you should examine your own prejudices, because this process is fundamentally sound.
While coding's importance may seem self-evident in Silicon Valley, leaders of the new efforts acknowledge they have some convincing to do.
Germans in both the FRG and the GDR are moving inexorably in this direction, not the least for self-evident economic reasons.
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On the face of it, this is a self-evident loss of competition.
Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.
"How one behaves when one meets the Queen is fairly self-evident and obvious, " said David Williamson, co-editor of Debrett's (the last word in social etiquette).
Perhaps Mr Kennedy and his publisher thought its truth to be self-evident.
In an opinion piece, The Drum's US editor Noel Young said "decisions not to publish, despite the self-evident news value, are always bad decisions".
At first sight it seems self-evident that falling incomes, rising prices and a squeeze on welfare will mean larger numbers find themselves below the breadline.
Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
For McDonald's managers, the answer to the first question was self-evident.
By contrast, the case for multilateralism is often far from self-evident.
When "Private Lives" opened in 1930, he was 30 and Gertrude Lawrence, his co-star, was 32, and their self-evident youth was central to the play's effect.
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But here's the point: The integrated American model of affluence linked to democracy linked to free markets as one indivisible principle doesn't seem so self-evident anymore.
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