Sentence examples for for a conspicuous from inspiring English sources

In other words, it seemed like the perfect time for a conspicuous, expensive acquisition.

Let, for example, anger be defined as "desire, accompanied with pain, for conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight that was directed against oneself or those near to one, when such a slight is undeserved".

Their electoral performance has been wilting ever since Millhead, for the want of a conspicuous success.

The strike-slip faulting has been active since Late Cretaceous times and is responsible for the presence of a conspicuous structural cleavage visible as lineaments up to ~ 10 km long.

This was the second time in a week that Mr. Bloomberg allowed Ms. Quinn to take center stage at a big announcement by his administration — granting Ms. Quinn, a Democratic candidate for mayor, a conspicuous dress rehearsal for the powerful role she is seeking.

Of the museum's 10,000 images and 4,000 linear feet of computer documentation, most have yet to be digitized for online access, a conspicuous delay for a museum honoring the digital age.

Cited for his "cheerful and untiring attitude" and for "set[ing] a conspicuous example", Towner was awarded the Military Cross for his actions.

Although music executives said the legal costs of the case didn't make it worth fighting for, it's a conspicuous cop-out considering that legal fees never stopped them from going to absurd lengths to win their battles against Napster or MP3.com.

An obvious potential explanation for this is a conspicuous lack of certain RNAi effectors in some nematode species.

The labellum of O. speculum, for instance, possesses a conspicuous shiny blue mirror that also reflects in the ultraviolet (UV).

Myelin outfoldings and redundant myelin loops, for example, are a conspicuous feature that suggests possible mutations in the myotubularin genes MTMR2 and SBF2 (Nelis et al., 2002 a; Azzedine et al., 2003).