It was a conspicuous omission for the NDP's Thomas Mulcair, who just days earlier had accused Harper of "breaking the rules" in failing to look into Riyadh's human rights record.
Hamas, whose name comes from the Arabic initials for Islamic Resistance Movement, was a conspicuous omission from an administration order, issued Sept. 24, freezing the assets of 27 individuals and groups suspected of funding terrorists.
But they did not actually show him doing anything, a conspicuous omission.
Given China's ambitions, abstaining from the TPP would not only be a conspicuous omission, it could also sow the seeds for slower investment and services trade activity in the future, given stronger policy incentives elsewhere.
Though some applauded Mr. Obama's criticism of America's allies in Yemen and Bahrain for their crackdowns on peaceful protesters, many noted the conspicuous omission of Saudi Arabia, another ally of the United States that is a conservative force throughout the region.
The conspicuous omission of Syria from the document, called the Tehran Declaration, followed a dramatic day of maneuvering by Iran's delegation to secure some kind of support for Syria's government, diplomats said, as the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his aides were criticizing foreign backing of the Syrian insurgency.
The use of only "revocation" and the conspicuous omission of "invalidation" and "nonenforcement" suggest that the exception does not include all defenses applicable to any contract but rather some subset of those defenses.
However, a somewhat conspicuous omission from the profile of Sun Yafang, the chairman, is that according to a report in the Financial Times—she used to work for the Ministry of State Security.
There was one conspicuous omission from the Patriotic Celebration: any mention of President Bush or the Iraq war.
The most conspicuous omission was that of the team's former captain Andrei Arshavin, who currently plays for Arsenal in England's Premier League.
"Zero Dark Thirty" operates on several levels, and it functions against itself: even as the movie stokes excitement for the hunt for bin Laden, it stands outside the mission and — without actually posing questions about the operation — poses the mission itself as a question, by way of canny and conspicuous omissions in content, strategies in representation, and control of tone.
