But the juxtaposition of self-evident with self-executing sets forth a challenge that every executive faces.
While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.
As we mark the 100th anniversary of Rosa Parks's birth, we celebrate the life of a genuine American hero and remind ourselves that although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
At that point, the question of whose side the President is on will be self-evident.
In truth, it is not self-evident that China harbors such an aspiration at least not for now.
FORBES: China May Not Be A U.S. Ally, But It's Also Not An Adversary
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?
If this proposition is not self-evident to you, you can go straight to the authority himself.
FORBES: Buffett's Billions Can't Buy Him Exemption From His Tax-Averse Past
There's a self-evident truth about ballplayers with mustaches: Ballplayers with mustaches love talking about mustaches.
WSJ: The Baseball Mustache: A Tradition With All the Trimmings
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.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Women's History Month, 2013
Then, having duly expressed the self-evident truth of European moral corruption, Oz-Salzberger moved on to her lies.
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.
FORBES: Dr. Pepper Ad Stirs the Mother of Evolution Battles on Facebook
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.
Similarly, it is self-evident that the key to beating the global jihad is victory in the battlefield of ideas.
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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An Emerging "Bush Doctrine"? "Stability" Over Freedom
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.
应用推荐