Industry executives here say it is easy to overlook some of the elemental facts about business-to-business trading.

There is a conflict of interest here, obviously, but knowing this elemental fact makes it easier to understand why securitised debt was misleadingly awarded AAA status.

All this combined with the traditional messianic military mentality and the ingenuousness of its strategies which were ignorant of the most elemental facts of international politics.

"That is a geographic, historic and elemental fact that has not been accepted by the North American leaders," he said.

Debating with him was like arguing with a wind, or a flood, or a forest fire, or some other elemental fact.

Although the King's simpleminded ministers continue to seem unaware of that elemental fact.

Anger is a luxury-the Force-Leader might be a good soldier, but he had not yet learned that elemental fact in all occupations.

Everything, every recollection however small, every feeling, seemed to fit into those elemental facts as though they had all been moulded together.

She was female and inherently irrational-but her conduct seemed to exceed this elemental fact.

Now it is an elemental fact that first aspect numbers do not carry within them their own prediction.