Sentence examples for was once obvious from inspiring English sources

The answer was once obvious: the places where shares were traded had not changed in centuries.

SAN FRANCISCO — For anyone with a crazy idea for a Web business, the way to make it pay was once obvious: get a lot of visitors and sell ads.

KATHLEEN HOPKINS Oak Park, Ill., April 22, 2011 To the Editor: Thank you to Paul Krugman for pointing out what was once obvious, that the patient-physician relationship should be a sacred one that transcends all the financial issues that have come to burden it.

The shock that non-New Orleanians experienced at what they saw was genuine, but memories have faded to the point that people no longer make what was once an obvious connection between a disabled federal government and bad outcomes for African-Americans.

If luxury real estate was once the most obvious way to measure and display wealth as "conspicuous consumption," it has become something more mundane today — a new class of economic asset used to store and grow wealth.

But an idea he called "so obvious" was once controversial, and it still can be.

The idea that mathematics underpins the laws of nature, which now seems obvious, was once radical.

And yet he was once again a very obvious weakness behind a Liverpool defence that was an accident waiting to happen for large portions of this enthralling game.

But the pressure for a social alternative has always come from capitalism itself and its failures, which are once again obvious to people throughout the world.

While radio DJ's and MTV were once an obvious path to popularity, today sites such as MySpace and The Hype Machine let people find music from unknown, unsigned bands.

The negative correlation is once again obvious.