Leave aside politics, leave aside parties, leave aside government, opposition – the parliament did not fail.
Leaving aside some elephant-size editorial questions — how do you put out an original national newspaper every day with a staff of only 100? — there's an argument to be made for the News Corporation's app-centric approach.
But leaving feelings aside, was this such a good deal?
Leaving that aside, the downsides seem less obvious.
Leaving reoperation aside, the number of valve-related adverse events was low.
Leaving aside the fact that there aren't 60 Carmichael-size projects on the drawing board, and leaving aside the fact that not even the owners of Carmichael believe their project will create 10,000 jobs, the global reality is that demand for coal is slowing down, not speeding up.
Majority of studies focused on the species proliferation in a relatively uniform "open space" thus leaving aside the effects of the landscape geometry as given by size and shape of inaccessible areas.
Leaving aside the question of whether forcing recalcitrant or underperforming authorities into "one size fits all" agencies will realise ministers' dreams of high quality, "joined-up" services, the fact that care trusts are NHS bodies has provoked concerns.
Leaving aside the talk of guns and bibles, Obama was close to the mark in sizing up exactly the problem he and any other Democrat face in trying to get a hearing with rural, mostly white, and very conservative voters.
Leaving aside the exceptional circumstances found at a few mega-universities, most classes in my experience vary in size from 15 to 35, making discussion, not lecture, the obvious way to proceed.
