Some of the recent legislative proposals and press accounts seem to have lost sight of this fact.
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One concern is that by playing up the fight against recession, the ECB could appear to have lost sight of inflation.
In today's feverish atmosphere, even business executives and free-market economists, academics and politicos have lost sight of the need to preserve this utterly critical instrument.
CalPERS under Mr Harrigan may have lost sight of its main objective of boosting returns for its 1.4m pensioners by straying too far into politics.
Fast-forward to today, to an era of professionalism, television and sponsorship revenues, artificial surfaces and rolling substitutions - and one where Asian hockey seems to have lost sight of its goal.
Americans have lost sight of a basic truth: war is not launched by technology, whether by spears or inter-continental missiles, but by human beings who make a decision to fight or not.
Or more specifically, from a branding perspective, Hollywood's biggest entertainment companies appear to have lost sight of what it means to create a great brand, which is, after all, what great movies are.
Advancement may take us to many new realms, but if we continue to diminish the human element as time moves forward, then we have lost sight of who the advancements were suppose to benefit.
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The elder of Eteso, Nana Kwabena Afful II, has welcomed the project as "what God intended for us to do, but we have lost sight of - benefiting from his creation and still keeping it intact".
The decision to keep Finn out of nine ODIs - he could still play in the September ODI series against Pakistan - will mean the Australians will have no opportunity to have a sight of him before the Ashes in November.
Although the robot's cameras have yet to catch sight of them, it seems whirlwinds of dust have been skirting around the six-wheeled vehicle.
But way too many players on Team Virtue have bizarrely lost sight of this fundamental distinction.
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Voters in each state have also lost sight of the link between their state taxes and their state expenditures.
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Top administrators have completely lost sight of their academic mission, and instead seem to believe that their primary job is to provide sports entertainment for the TV-watching public.
Some have so lost sight of the ends in pursuing the means that each new government sanction or consumer-boycott-induced withdrawal of a foreign investor is celebrated as a triumph in itself.
Through the long nights and weekends and the time away from their families, they have never lost sight of the critical importance of the work of the Fed for the economic well-being of all Americans.
The breakthrough was welcome but on such an arduous day England would not have relished the sight of the limpet-like Shivnarine Chanderpaul walking out to bat, a man with a Test average of 100 in the last two years.
The nine-times champions of Europe dominated the first half and should have been out of sight at the break.
Spain dominated for long periods and could have been out of sight before Nilsson's late leveller.
Liverpool, who were without the injured Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, showed their defensive discipline to keep out Spurs and should have been out of sight by the time they were awarded an injury-time penalty after David Ngog was brought down by Sebastien Bassong.
By this point Fulham could have been out of sight had Zamora's heavy first touch not allowed Benaglio to save at the striker's feet after he was free on goal or if Murphy's shot from a Paul Konchesky cross had been placed better so as to prevent a last-ditch goal-line clearance from Barzagli.
James would have fainted with surprise, although the sight of Uma Thurman in a sheer camisole might have forced him to revise his entire theory of fiction.
However, often the professional number-crunchers and political soothsayers regale us with their interpretations of the wider electoral significance, we should never lose sight of the huge influence these councils have on millions of people's lives.
There's no reason not to put a USB socket there, unless you truly think people would prefer to have it tucked out of sight on that rear edge.
Amid all the talk of closing borders, building fences and raiding factories or slaughterhouses, we often lose sight of another kind of immigrant, one we have been very effective in keeping out of the United States--to our detriment.
But because of the Academies Bill's timetable, "we have the spectacle of ministers who have already told us they will accept no amendment, period, and the sight of whips new and old cracking their knuckles off-stage and perfecting basilisk-like stares in the mirror" to prevent MPs voting for any changes, he said.
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