Nokia executives observe that it has suffered blips in its market share before, and insist that the desire to regain the initiative has galvanised the entire organisation.
Now after picking the coin, you flip it three times and observe that it lands heads each time.
In the next five to seven years you will observe that it has become an educational hub.
It is also fair to observe that it is rather useful for the government to try to swivel the focus in this direction.
After the bombing in Bali, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was moved to observe that it was "a wake-up call for the Indonesians".
One only has to have a spare half hour at a railway station newsstand to observe that it is not only spotty 18-year-olds consuming this material.
The prime minister was also correct to observe that it is to Parliament and the people that he is ultimately answerable for his political judgments.
Only up close does the viewer observe that it is made of thousands of tampons, strung together by a cotton thread and hung from steel cables.
Surely I state what can only be apparent to any man not a Jackass when I observe that it bears little relation to my original Work.
They then observe that it is possible to know that something is the case without being aware that one knows it.
Mr Hewlett's supporters rightly observe that it will be difficult for a single company to compete against both Dell in the PC market and IBM in services.
