Even leaving aside his fractious friends, Mr Fischer will have trouble making his weight felt.
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Leaving aside the cystic fibrosis case, he says genetic testing benefits from incentives for innovation by luring in investors.
Leaving aside the existing permits for drilling in the Gulf, before -- weeks before BP, you had called for expanded drilling.
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That was surely the wrong answer, even leaving aside the debatable issue of whether cabinet secretaries can influence the level of exchange rates.
"Leaving aside the ethics of asserting a patent against a feature designed to help the blind, this is unwise, " wrote John Paczkowski.
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Leaving aside the recent downturn in its stock post-IPO, any rational analysis would see this as one of the all-time great business success stories.
Leaving aside the assumption about EU membership being a good thing, it is still not clear whether Brussels would accept negotiations on that basis.
Thus, leaving aside natural disasters, such as the periodic droughts that sweep Brazil's north-east, a huge programme of food aid might be missing the point.
Leaving aside problems such as falling international credit ratings and rising interest rates, there is a risk that even the good bits will not be delivered.
But leaving aside other spending and tax changes, the fall in offshore revenue for subsequent years will mean the deficit grows quite rapidly in subsequent years.
Leaving aside the broader question of whether the government should pay PR firms to influence doctors in the first place, doing so in secret is pernicious.
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Nobel economist James Buchanan often noted that costs are subjective, something not available to an external, third-party policymaker (leaving aside that few cost calculations exist today anyway).
Leaving aside the substantive merits of this and other proposals designed to curb the too-big-to-fail phenomenon, this is an accessible idea that would help Romney play against type.
Again, leaving aside the possibility of a new round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve in the immediate-term, the latest policy moves have already been priced in.
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Leaving aside what he's done statistically, he's a classic power pitcher, with that high, riding fastball and a set of breaking pitches that dive down and in just under the hands.
Even leaving aside the nasty suggestiveness of the whole thing, there remains the irreconcilable contradiction between the crude realism of real machinery (of American make) combined with an abstractly treated figure.
Leaving aside the question of why we need an extra intermediary to get films to our television sets, the mere fact that he announced it at all, was a sign of weakness.
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Leaving aside the mistaken idea that immigration is purely an act of generosity (start with this excellent Economist article for example), is it actually true that we do better than anyone else?
Still, if the Gulen message is well received in the West, that is partly because the message from other Muslim networks (leaving aside the ones that openly espouse terror) is often so dark.
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The cost of litigation alone (leaving aside any potential damages) may cause significant damage to a startup, including reductions in staff, changes to its products or services, or even a collapse of the business itself.
But leaving aside whether the decline in childbirth says something positive or negative about us, what I find interesting is how the case for more babies fails to distinguish itself from the case for more immigrants.
Leaving aside such disincentives as pervasive corruption, maddening bureaucracy and organised crime, there is the question whether the government's plans for the labour market will do enough to stimulate the growth Italy has so woefully failed to generate.
Leaving aside the monetization of debt, using taxes or savings to handle a large fiscal deficit reduces the amount of money available to private investment and therefore curtails the creation of new businesses and limits much-needed increases in productivity.
Leaving aside the issue of the meaning of entrance standards in a college dedicated to providing second chances for adult students, I gave you data showing that applications had risen this year and that rejections had risen even more rapidly.
Leaving aside the controversy of whether the UK needs extra airport capacity, there was a feeling at Friday's opening that Terminal 5 represented a rare British success story - a huge capital project that was completed on time and within budget.
Leaving aside the question of what Parliament will do for the next few months, given the gaping hole in the legislative programme left by the demise of Lords reform, I wonder how many other new ministers will be seeking to re-write live legislation.
Leaving aside the japes about fellows of Clare College becoming MP for Cambridge, he is super-active, sitting on two select committees as well as the committee scrutinising the Draft Defamation Bill (to sort out the libel laws) while still managing to be almost omnipresent in the Chamber.
But they do have a direct strategic interest in keeping the next election as tight as possible (leaving aside the baleful effect of the boundary changes on a number of their MPs) because it maximises their chance of a hung parliament in 2015 and leverage over the next government.
Leaving aside the slight incongruity of a pro-devolutionist First Minister lecturing a Unionist Prime Minister about the dangers of the breakup of the Union, it's clear that the Welsh Government is increasingly turning its mind to where Wales might stand in a UK where Scotland, if not fully independent, is standing alone in all but name.
But leaving those aside there is absolutely no chance of convincing the British electorate that we should ditch the pound and enter the euro.
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