| But the Iraq issue was the elephant in the room, the issue that the two leaders could not ignore. |
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| Here in Britain the issue of illegal immigration used to be like the elephant in the room that everyone pretended not to notice. |
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| But the elephant in the room, as the policy grinds forward, is US corporate involvement in Colombia. |
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| Equally unhealthy is a refusal to admit there is another view or to admit the presence of the elephant in the room. |
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| It's the elephant in the room that everybody avoids talking about, isn't it? |
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| In both of these subcultures, people simply refuse to acknowledge that religion is the proverbial elephant in the room of liberal democracies. |
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| Mr. Charlie Angus: But it was defined by the Supreme Court, so it's the elephant in the room that we have to deal with. |
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| But 19 and 12, though superficially similar in their youthfulness, are diametrically opposed regarding the elephant in the room. |
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| At a book party at Johnny's half shell on the Hill, Boehner acknowledged the elephant in the room. |
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| But the elephant in the room of the 2012 GOP field is that it is both unsettled and unimpressive. |
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| Sometimes I feel it is the elephant in the room, because it is one of the greatest potential contributors to the European Union's ability to reduce carbon dioxide emissions today and in the future. |
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| Anyway, being cowardly by nature, as well as a dissembler, I hope we can get through our hour together without mentioning the film – the elephant in the room! |
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| It is the famous elephant in the room that everybody avoids talking about. |
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| I think the elephant in the room which Westerners have not really wanted to look at for the last 15 years is that they don't actually believe in their own recipes for the problems that face the Mideast. |
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| However, the real elephant in the room for Canadians is climate change. |
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| No discussion of pork cookery would be complete without mention of the elephant in the room, trichinosis. |
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| It's all about tailings ponds and if they're seeping into the Athabasca, yet we seem to be avoiding this issue as if it were the elephant in the room. |
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| We could have written the book about the relationship elephant in the room. |
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| The Elephant's Tea Party builds on an apt metaphor for bereavement, there's an elephant in the room, and the theme, an elephant never forgets. |
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| Good vibrations aside, the confusion and combativeness demonstrated by Hinchey and company during the offseason continues to be the elephant in the room. |
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| Meanwhile, an elephant in the room remains. |
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| It seeks to dodge the one huge issue that is really exercising heads of government across the EU: this is the elephant in the room, and it is called the European Constitution. |
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| It's the elephant in the room as far as the club is concerned, but fans are starting to change their underwear because it's been relegation form for some time. |
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