Sentence examples for conspicuous in recent years from inspiring English sources

As the author himself says, the hedge fund industry has been conspicuous in recent years mainly for formidable growth in assets and profits, not to say remuneration.

The film, "Heckler," argues that hecklers have grown not only more conspicuous in recent years, but more scathing, as more people feel emboldened to partake in public criticism, perhaps in part because the culture of blogs and online user reviews has created a climate where everyone is a critic — and a harsh one.

But the absence of mid-budget films from lists of the world's highest-grossing films, which has become increasingly conspicuous in recent years, indicates that Hollywood's model is changing.

But it would require visionary courage and a commitment to the true simplification of pensions, both conspicuous by their absence in recent years.

The extraordinary inflation of rare-wine prices — of which the Jefferson bottles are the most conspicuous example — has led in recent years to an explosion of counterfeits in the wine trade.

One of the most conspicuous changes in health care in recent years has been the proliferation of alcohol-hand-rub dispensers in hospitals and doctors' offices — often as part of a Gojo program called Purell Portal.

But Democrats currently hold all statewide elective offices in New York, and Mr. D'Amato has been a conspicuous donor to New York Democrats in recent years, raising money for Eliot Spitzer, David A. Paterson and Andrew M. Cuomo in their runs for governor, and standing by proudly as Mr. Paterson named Kirsten E. Gillibrand to the Senate in 2009.

Joe, actually a Korean-American named Yun Soo Oh Park, was a conspicuous presence in investment chat rooms in recent years and finally gained the kind of following that enabled him to charge $200 a month to folks wishing to tap onto his Web site and get to read about his stock picks.

In recent years, the most conspicuous public falsehoods have been ridiculed by independent bloggers and Comedy Central's faux news hosts.

In recent years, China's conspicuous consumers have made the purchase of over-priced cognacs one of their favourite ways of flaunting wealth, in some cases buying bottles priced at several hundred dollars only to smash them on the floor.

But in recent years, her most conspicuous public role was to walk between her parents, holding their hands, as they left the White House for a summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard in August 1998 immediately after her father's public admission that he had had an affair with Monica S. Lewinsky.