Sentence examples for of the salient from inspiring English sources

Obama did mention that majorities actually poll in favor of the salient portions of both bills.

As he prepares for yet another return to basketball, most of the salient questions have been answered.

By giving it away free I'm hoping a few of the salient facts make it into the mainstream.

(One of the salient details of Hemingway's description of the married Marie's outfit is her oversized hat).

The precariousness of charity food was one of the salient features of the recent Defra report on food aid provision.

Indeed, one of the salient characteristics of a social movement is the semiformal character of its structure.

By contrast, three-quarters of the salient issues on the current legislative agenda are going nowhere fast.

But a brief survey of the salient electoral facts will make plain what the President has to achieve in order to be re-elected today.

The file note by Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, is offered as a record of the "salient points" of the meeting, not a full accounting or even minutes.

And people do learn from experience: procrastinators know all too well the allures of the salient present, and they want to resist them.

In recent years, the tendency to misremember past debacles as humiliations has emerged as one of the salient features of the Kremlin's conduct of international affairs.