It was apparent even then that the "war on drugs" had failed.
It was apparent even then, however, that for all the nation's progress, it faced very real difficulties.
The books bear this out to an almost comic degree — it's apparent even in their titles.
It was apparent, even one day after the attacks, that so much of the world had felt the impact.
Glass waited, but the young man was in no hurry; it was apparent even down the phone line that he was once again enjoying himself.
"It was apparent even then that we had a commitment to New Brunswick that we couldn't run away from," Mr. Sellars said in a 1984 interview.
"When we drafted Daunte so high," Green said, "it was apparent even before he stepped on the football field for us that he was our quarterback of the future.
Upon observing the midsagittal images, it was apparent even to the naked eye that dogs with the most brachycephalic skulls had markedly rotated cerebral hemispheres, with the brain pitched ventrally at the anterior pole.
That it's one step towards reparation is apparent, even though it's a belated one, and while a step such as this can't redeem the destruction to one of the country's melting-pot population, at least it recognizes that such ignominies occurred.
