Sentence examples for a conspicuous stake from inspiring English sources

In the run-up to the 1997 handover of sovereignty to China, which was beginning to cause alarm amongst the more panicky of the island's residents, the bank was keen to plant a conspicuous stake in the future of the territory.

A conspicuous disparity persists.

George is a conspicuous communicator.

(Daniel McGowan is a conspicuous McCartney look-alike).

A conspicuous absence of cigarette butts.

The study noted a conspicuous exception.

But there is a conspicuous difference.

There is a conspicuous lack of chardonnay.

Only taste is a conspicuous no-show.

This, too, was a conspicuous failure.

Rachel Barany, an educational consultant in New York, is a conspicuous exception.