His most conspicuous period of protest outside Australia House coincided with news from Australia of massacres of Aboriginal people in Western Australia Forrest Riverr, 1927) and the Northern Territory (Coniston, 1928) for which no white perpetrators were prosecuted.
Thousands of hard-core soccer fans — known here as ultras — were for the first time a conspicuous presence in the protests and a dominant force in the violence.
Bashir, already wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities against his own people, clearly recognizes the precariousness of his position following his government's conspicuous failure to stem the protests through use of excessive force.
New Delhi did not intervene on behalf of Tibetan protesters even though their leader, the Dalai Lama, was described by the Indian prime minister as the "personification of non-violence" — and it was conspicuous in its silence over the protests in Burma.
Rev David Mumford Brechin, Angus Ian Jack (13 December) is surely right to recall that many of Scotland's left-leading political class tend to be conspicuous by their absence at political protests at the Gare Loch and elsewhere.
Lawmakers were conspicuous on Saturday and Sunday at the protests around the country, with even freshmen like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif).
Gucci jeans, pink open-neck shirts and patent leather shoes made bankers as conspicuous as flamingos in a crowd of protesting wildebeest.
The loose and chaotic coalition that grew out of the notorious 4Chan message board has been conspicuous by its presence in all kinds of protests - both online and off.
As the smoke clears from a week of destructive protests in Asunción, two facts are increasingly conspicuous: supporters of presidential reelection have not given up, but neither have the people of Paraguay.
Such conspicuous inclusion during the Games deflated a series of planned protests.
But unlike other protests in the city, there has been a conspicuous absence of portraits of the king.
