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But to be blunt, measuring the PageRank of your own website or that of your competitors is absolutely pointless.

Ultimately though, Sora faces one possibly insurmountable hurdle in her rise to Chinese superstardom. To be blunt: She's Japanese.

To be blunt, America is out of practice at dealing with an independent source of national power.

To be blunt, XP (or any other agile methodology) doesn't matter at all.

Lord Caldwell To be blunt, land. We seek a place for our families far from the blight of the necromancers.

At its worst it seeks movies from across the globe, some of which, to be blunt, are not ready for prime time.

Some contributors are experts in the field, but, to be blunt, a large number of members barely understand the technology they are voting on.

To be blunt, most Britons under 40 have only the haziest knowledge of the empire: history is not their strongest suit.

To be blunt: recent events suggest that the Republican Party has been driven mad by lack of power.

Ms Merkel, though readier to be blunt with autocrats, nurtures Germany's honest-broker role.

I'm going to be blunt and honest; I've never paid any attention to the whole "blog" trend.

To be blunt, I doubt you will find anybody better. . .

To be blunt, your work is appalling.

To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq.

To be blunt, this idea is stupid.

To be blunt, the government is failing wretchedly to sell the Big Society.

Solman, nuclear weapons are all we need to prevent any SANE foreign country from messing with us, to be blunt.

I have to be blunt: you're not welcome here.

To be blunt, I believe there are three reasons corporate IT is stuck in a rut