Article 144 of the Constitution directed the newly created military police entities to serve as a "conspicuous police force and preserve public order", subordinate, together with the civil police, to state governors.
This increased visibility is more than an exercise in conspicuous consumption: forced into servitude under colonial rule and later relegated to the margins of society, Bolivia's many indigenous peoples were long excluded from mainstream society.
The most conspicuous new philosophical force conveyed by this transmission was that of Buddhism, especially as represented in art and architecture.
Taylor argues that traffic is safer when cyclists are more conspicuous, as motorists are forced to take accountability for helping keep them safe and are less easily lulled into dangerous behaviors like speeding or turning without looking.
On Tuesday, Nicaragua's legislature approved the incursion of U.S. and Russian ships, troops and aircraft in and over its offshore territory to fight drug trafficking, a measure whose omission of Colombian armed forces was conspicuous.
For more than a year, the Eighth Air Force was a conspicuous failure.
Conspicuous here are the security forces carrying automatic rifles and wearing camouflage-patterned, bullet-proof vests, riding grimly around in open-topped jeeps.
However, on a day marked once again by the conspicuous presence of government security forces throughout central and northern Tehran, he called on supporters of Iran's opposition Green Movement to avoid confrontation.
But after Sept. 11, a painful security headache arose as the threat of terrorism against a conspicuous gathering in the Middle East forced the United States and most other nations to send only skeleton negotiating teams.
Iraq's security forces are the most conspicuous example of the tension between politics and violence in Basra, and the aptly named Serious Crimes Unit of the Basra Police is perhaps the most egregious example.
