To Smith, it was almost self-evident that, instead of complaining about income tax, people like him should 'shoulder that obligation as part of one's citizenship and be proud of it'.
Some of the terms were almost self-evident.
The justice of the Native Americans' claim for an accurate accounting of money owed them is almost self-evident.
The risks, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors familiar with white-collar cases, are almost self-evident.
More than any other league, the NBA's choices for All-Stars tend to be almost self-evident, the most important players tend to make themselves obviously indispensable.
Had the pianist programmed, say, one of Schubert's late sonatas instead, his reach for the composer's expressive, emotion-wracked depth would have been almost self-evident.
A summary of the effects of crisis can only underline one single fact that is almost self-evident: the wonders of civilization attained under the Antonines required an essentially political base.
Still, these people seem certain that the description, whatever it turns out to be, will not be like the great unifying descriptions in physics, in which a single equation, or a few equations, derived from what appear to be almost self-evident principles, can describe and predict vast realms of phenomena.
It is almost self-evident that social interactions can determine economic behavior and outcomes.
If that is not bad enough, it is almost self-evident that the principal reason why about 1 billion people in the world are living on the equivalent of $1 or $2 a day is because of bad government policies.
In those kinds of research it is almost self-evident that a criminal justice researcher has to take account of legislation, case law, information on the allocation of resources and/or crime related statistical information.
