Yet it seems almost self-evident: the next few months could be the whole game here.
The justice of the Native Americans' claim for an accurate accounting of money owed them is almost self-evident.
The risks, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors familiar with white-collar cases, are almost self-evident.
Now, that may sound almost self-evident: of course Hillary Clinton can get her face in the paper.
Though its findings seem almost self-evident today, the Science paper made a splash at the time.
Indeed it might seem almost self-evident that Holocaust education would have that purpose, and that effect.
More than any other league, the NBA's choices for All-Stars tend to be almost self-evident, the most important players tend to make themselves obviously indispensable.
Had the pianist programmed, say, one of Schubert's late sonatas instead, his reach for the composer's expressive, emotion-wracked depth would have been almost self-evident.
To Smith, it was almost self-evident that, instead of complaining about income tax, people like him should 'shoulder that obligation as part of one's citizenship and be proud of it'.
A summary of the effects of crisis can only underline one single fact that is almost self-evident: the wonders of civilization attained under the Antonines required an essentially political base.
Still, these people seem certain that the description, whatever it turns out to be, will not be like the great unifying descriptions in physics, in which a single equation, or a few equations, derived from what appear to be almost self-evident principles, can describe and predict vast realms of phenomena.
