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This construction worker wasn't going to let the small matter of not having adequate safety equipment get in the way of his job.

Now, all that stands between me and the world is the small matter of breaking the news to my family over the usual Thursday night lasagne.

After that, it is just a small matter of convincing the world to start thinking about a magnesium economy instead of hydrogen one, he adds.

Of course before all that happens there is the small matter of deciding where the telescope will be built.

Women always yearn for the small matter of some insignificant sad pathos or unfounded.

He knows his mission is not an easy one; for one thing, there is the small matter of funding.

However, there is the small matter of where Senator Obama was on this issue when we really needed him.

There is, though, the small matter of money.

Before then, however, there is the small matter of America's slow economic recovery.

Now it is back to training before the small matter of Juventus, a short break and then Sampdoria.

And before that there is the small matter of next April's national elections, the first since 1986.

And then there's the small matter of demographics.

There is also the small matter of Mr Blair's involvement in the Iraq war, which many Europeans opposed.

Congress also faces the small matter of passing a budget so that the government can continue to function in the new year.