Yes, he knew that winning the World Cup would not bring back one victim of the Canterbury earthquakes, or make any more optimistic a farmer who had seen his land ruined, or diminish the loss of those loved ones of the miners who died in the Pike River disaster, but it had brought, no doubt, some lightening of the national mood.
CORRECTItN: A previous version of this article erroneously stated that Diplo was on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Bakanova brought a no doubt partly adrenaline-fuelled dramatic intensity to the part and embodied the desperation, dramatic extremity, and existential plight of Violetta more completely than any other performance I have seen.
This weekend's BottleRock brings Imagine Dragons, No Doubt, Robert Plant and Michael Franti (a long time Bay Area favorite), The Avett Brothers, Foster the People, the Gipsy Kings.
But as computers invade the car industry, bringing new opportunities, benefits and problems, they will no doubt bring the gee-whizz claims of the computer industry along too.
Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.
Gold says he is not a hypocrite by on the one hand calling for a drastic reduction in ticket prices while on the other raising his own: "If I reduced prices at Birmingham I would no doubt bring in more supporters, and maybe even get a knighthood, while the chairman of a club that raised prices would end up with a half-full stadium and be maligned by the media.
In some areas the move will, no doubt, bring benefits.
That would no doubt bring further cost savings and be good news for shareholders.
Looking ahead, the sector is undergoing continuous transformation and a new government will no doubt bring further changes.
