Sentence examples for a conspicuous instance from inspiring English sources

He is a conspicuous instance of a self-made man.

A conspicuous instance of a supertask which is kinematically impossible is the one performed by Black's infinity machine, whose task it is to transport a ball from position A (x = 0) to position B (x = 1) and from B to A an infinite number of times in one hour.

A very conspicuous instance of such variation is found in the ALNs, which appear in clusters of variable cell numbers in P. litorale but only as single neurons or neuron pairs in Meridionale sp. and C. japonicus.

The movement known as Institutional Critique, which obsessively parses the system by which art is circulated and consumed and has been, paradoxically, much favored by museum curators, is only the most conspicuous instance of this blinkered view of real, multidimensional life in the world at large.

The most conspicuous instance of this self-destruction was the imposition of controls on bank deposits last December.

In his The Constitution of Liberty (1960) he said, "The most conspicuous instance of this in our society is that of the treatment of homosexuality".

Omitting the few conspicuous instances in which actual earners of money make extraordinary fortunes by exceptional personal gifts or strokes of luck, the existing differences of income among workers are not individual but corporate differences.

Below I list the most conspicuous instances of this pattern of discontinuity in the biological and pre-biological domains, and outline the central aspects of the respective evolutionary transitions.

The politician Tim Soutphommasane is a conspicuous recent example.

The labellum of O. speculum, for instance, possesses a conspicuous shiny blue mirror that also reflects in the ultraviolet (UV).

More prosperous countries seem to have lower rates of church attendance, although America the best instance of a country of competing sects rather than a state religion is a conspicuous exception.