Senator DURBIN: Well, I of course respect John Warner for coming back and stating the obvious.

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Speaking at a gathering of bank bosses in Frankfurt, Josef Ackermann said he was "stating the obvious".

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So stating the obvious, I will make the observation that there will be some inflation in our future.

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If you waste ink stating the obvious ("Use only as directed"), you will lose the reader before you get to the important things.

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Saying that money and politics go hand in hand would be stating the obvious, but a study released by the Center for Responsive Politics takes it further.

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"I know it's stating the obvious you get at least a point and the more goals you concede, the more you have got to score to win, " he added.

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"It's stating the obvious that our batting was again the main problem, and getting 102 in the first innings always put us on the back foot, " home skipper Gayle commented.

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At the risk of stating the obvious, no nation can afford its people the quality of life, let alone the economic and security benefits, associated with being an advanced 21st Century society without assured and cost-effective access to energy.

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Talk about stating the obvious.

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When Mervyn King recently said that the fall in the exchange rate was helpful the governor of the Bank of England was merely stating an obvious truth.

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