The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicuous by its absence.

The most conspicuous absence was the United States.

While Patterson sought publicity, Gimlin was conspicuous by his absence.

Rolling and mountainous terrain and the absence of large rivers are conspicuous features of the South.

Both laws involve finding significance in the appearance of the number, and in its " presen esoterically because of its conspicuous exoteric absence.

Japan and the EU are conspicuous by absence.

Achilles ' absence from the lists is conspicuous, but Hesiod explains that he was too young to take part in the contest.

It is, however, a much more common feature in French than in English ; while in German, with some striking exceptions, it is conspicuous by its absence.

Most conspicuous is the absence of decaying dead wood, a crucial component of natural forest ecosystems.

Even in the last few centuries the fylfot is conspicuous by its absence from grants of arms ( understandably so since 1945 ; see: Swastika – Stigma ).

Rabbits are now conspicuous by their absence from the roundabout, which remains professionally landscaped.

However in 1973, he teamed up again with Tinieblas and El Fantasma Blanco in two more films, Macabre Legends of the Colony and The Mummies of San Angel ( which both resemble " Champions Of Justice " films, in spite of the Blue Demon's conspicuous absence from the casts ).

A B ' Stard Exposed ( December 30, 1994 ) – Alan B ' Stard MP has returned to domestic Parliament following a Welsh by-election conspicuous by the absence of any opponents.

Borges has far less sympathy with those who go beyond Lugones, such as Ricardo Rojas who wants to see in Martín Fierro literal or metaphorical analogues for almost every aspect of Argentine history and moral character, praising the work mostly for aspects that Borges finds " conspicuous by their absence.

Sliding tackles can often be sources of controversy, particularly when players being tackled fall down over the tackler's foot ( or the ball stopped by the tackler's foot ), and penalties, free kicks and cards are assessed ( or are conspicuous by their absence ).

The most conspicuous fact is the absence of large atolls and the low density of reef and island structures.

The icon of Jagannath is a carved and decorated wooden stump with large round eyes and with stumps as hands, with the conspicuous absence of any legs.

In The Last Battle, Susan is conspicuous by her absence.

Hartz is best known for his classic book The Liberal Tradition in America ( 1955 ) which presented a view of America's past that sought to explain its conspicuous absence of ideologies.

Necker, conspicuous by his absence from the royal party on that day, found himself in disgrace with Louis, but back in the good graces of the National Assembly.

Bob Gordon, the original FM Rail Managing Director who had promised so much, and Jyoti Ferguson, the Finance Director from November 2005 to November 2006 were conspicuous by their absence.

Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.

* 12 June 1968 Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under Statute 12 of the Society's regulations, which covers people who have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science or are such that their election would be of signal benefit to the Society.

Lacking such a saint, a profession would get a saint whose conspicuous acts or miracles in some way recall the profession.

Although this service to the state was regarded by him as only an apprenticeship to the service of science, he fulfilled its duties with such conspicuous ability that not only did he rise rapidly to the highest post in his department, but he was also entrusted with several important diplomatic missions.

Wrens vary from highly secretive species such as those found in the genus Microcerculus to the highly conspicuous genus Campylorhynchus, the members of which will frequently sing from exposed perches.

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

Painter-poets, such as Shen Zhou ( 1427 – 1509 ), Tang Yin ( 1470 – 1524 ), Wen Zhengming ( 1470 – 1559 ), and Yun Shouping ( 1633 – 1690 ), created worthy conspicuous poems as they combined art, poetry and calligraphy with brush on paper.

Furthermore, the defensive position was solid, with the village of Markgrafneusiedl formed of sturdy stone houses and a number of large buildings, such as a disused stone church with a tall, conspicuous tower, a monastery and a mill, all of which constituted easily-defendable structures.

This study is therefore both an attempt to do justice to his virtues in fearlessly contending for his convictions, while at the same time not disguising those failings which were such a conspicuous feature of his character.

Although petals are usually the most conspicuous parts of a flower, some species, such as grasses, have either very small petals or lack them entirely.

The rangers were armed but their jobs had mainly involved enforcing hunting and firearms regulations, and in any case there was no reason for them to expect that the men who had been making themselves conspicuous by such a disturbance would actually be wanted escapees.

Because it is such a conspicuous species, forest containing kauri is generally known as kauri forest, although kauri need not be the most abundant tree.

Sociologically, to the conspicuous consumer, such a public display of discretionary economic power is a means either of attaining or of maintaining a given social status.

In the Journal of Economic Issues article “ Veblen, Bourdieu, and Conspicuous Consumption ” ( 2001 ), A. Trigg defined conspicuous consumption as the behaviours whereby a man or a woman can display great wealth by means of idleness — such as expending much time in the practice of leisure activities, and spending much money to consume luxury goods and services.

In the U. S. of the 1950s, there began the trend towards building oversized houses, domestic dwellings that were larger than needed, by the nuclear family ; fifty years later, in the year 2000, such a practice in conspicuous consumption resulted in people buying large houses that were double the average size required to comfortably house a nuclear family.

Furthermore, oversized houses facilitated other forms of conspicuous consumption, such as an oversized garage for the family ’ s oversized motor vehicles ; buying more clothing to fill larger clothes closets ; et cetera ; hence, conspicuous consumption becomes a self-generating cycle of spending money for the sake of social prestige.

station wagon and estate car ), as a form of psychologically comforting conspicuous consumption, because such big motor vehicles usually are consumed by people who work in a city, but live and reside in an oversized house in a suburban community.

In which case, the externality is associated with the loss of status suffered by people whose stock of high-status ( positional ) goods is diminished, in relation to the stocks of other conspicuous consumers, as they increase their consumption of such goods and services ; effectively, status-seeking is a zero-sum game — by definition, the rise of one person in the social hierarchy can occur only at the expense of other people.

The power of drawing such lines is conspicuous in the decoration of red-figured vases of Athens.

The Gilbert shoreline is the least conspicuous of the major shorelines but evidence of it remains at Antelope Island and in large coastal features, such as the Fingerpoint Spit near the Hogup Mountains.

However, the conspicuous austerity of life among many sects accused of antinomianism ( such as Anabaptists or Calvinists ) suggests that these accusations are often, or even mostly, made for rhetorical effect.

They are important and conspicuous trees in many of their native ecosystems, such as lowland dry forests of the former Maui Nui in Hawaii, Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests, Louisiade Archipelago rain forests, Madagascar lowland forests, Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests, New Guinea mangroves or South Western Ghats montane rain forests.

The sclerotial stage of C. purpurea conspicuous on the heads of ryes and other such grains is known as ergot.