Or the obvious hand-forged expense.
With no obvious hand-picked successor, candidates from the Muslim north are lining up to succeed Mr Obasanjo, a Christian southerner.
— Sally Jewell bounded up a granite boulder near the peak of Old Rag Mountain and turned back to her hiking companion, who was staring up at the smooth rock that offered no obvious hand- or footholds.
Inaction is often the result, but also the creation over time of confusing systems for education, health care, taxes, welfare, etc.This complexity obscures the beneficiaries of federal policies businesses, for example, gain more from abstruse regulations that favour them than from more obvious hand-outs and makes it difficult for voters to pinpoint whand-outs ande for failures.
Occasionally, Katherine Ronalds, his wife, had rebelled against spending money on improvements, on the ground that they were foolish and extravagant, but today, when the taxi stopped in front of the house, she saw in every preparation the obvious hand of Providence.
It took courage for Winthrop to prosecute Hutchinson, for he did not hold an obvious winning hand.
Caitlyn has the obvious upper hand, but even the lousiest software would advise a reversal of some sort.
Thomas Shannon, a senior diplomat and adviser to secretary of state John Kerry, said there was "a very obvious Russian hand" in developments in eastern Ukraine.
The most obvious option — handing back the Vivo cash to shareholders as a dividend — may not be so attractive for management but "the worst thing that they could do is to rush" into another acquisition, said Georgios Ierodiaconou, a telecommunications analyst at ING in London.
Europa's will be less obvious, says Hand.
