Mr Jiang's successor, soon to be formally anointed, will have neither revolutionary experience nor conspicuous contributions as an administrator to draw upon.
While there are no agreed-upon criteria for inclusion, membership in this select group customarily requires conspicuous contributions at one or both of the foundings of the United States: during the American Revolution, when independence was won, or during the Constitutional Convention, when nationhood was achieved.
The try was only the most conspicuous contribution.
Her most conspicuous contribution is the living room rug, which looks like a beautiful amoeba, or perhaps a liquid rainbow.
The platform was not far from Jamaluddin's most conspicuous contribution to the garden, a mudhif, a reed house with an arched roof, traditionally used for meetings by the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq.
The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Pete Townshend, Chuck Hammer and Tom Verlaine.
While the goalie and captain got the headlines in Game 4, other key contributions were less conspicuous, as Lynn Zinser writes in today's Times: "Strong performances from centers Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky and the team's penalty killers were less obvious.
But the most conspicuous and far-reaching of his contributions is the rule that bears his name, adopted in 2003, requiring that at least one minority candidate be interviewed for coaching positions.
Coccolithophores are unicellular calcifying marine phytoplankton that can form large and conspicuous blooms in the oceans and make significant contributions to oceanic carbon cycling and atmospheric CO2 regulation.
This observation, more conspicuous in the presence of linkage, could in principle be ascribed to the increased contribution of individuals with smaller average coancestry noted above.
Mullan is not as conspicuous as his rivals, neither a metre-pounding ball-carrier nor a big-hitter, but his overall contribution makes him the most consistent and steady.
