It is obvious that gathering information from the expectant moms and the society would help policy makers learn more about the problem and its solutions.
The atmosphere of the Aix market is endangered in summer by fleets of tourist buses, we had heard, but on this May day, the only glaringly obvious outsiders were gathering around a tour director holding up a sign printed in Italian.
There is obvious potential in gathering a large group of frothing protestors in a boutique department store.
Google is not going to just allow the technology, amazing as it is despite its obvious flaws, to sit gathering dust on a shelf.
SIGNS of middle age were obvious at a recent gathering of Nasscom, the club for India's giant IT industry, which now has sales of $100 billion and is dominated by outsourcing firms.
Though the motivation for the Labour gathering was not obvious, it was convivial enough and the Lib Dems were unsurprised when the Labour group – including MPs Stephen Pound and Sadiq Khan – offered a rendition of Happy Birthday in return for a small consideration.
The answer, even in that early hour of the gathering storm, was obvious — except to those whose outrage was tempered by heartbreak and the apparent betrayal of values by the icon they believed to be above even the most routine industry transgressions.
The BBC's obvious strength as a news-gathering organisation may paradoxically be part of the problem here.
