Sentence examples for salient and a from inspiring English sources

It is also salient and a bit chastening to consider the primacy, depth and succour of female friendships in the book.

His air of gratitude must have seemed an eerie novelty in the New York art scene of the time, where demiurges like Pollock and Willem de Kooning had made the idea of greatness salient and a group of upstarts — Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns — were swinging for the fences.

However, the advance produced an awkward salient and a surprise German counteroffensive on 30 November drove the British back to their starting lines.

The spontaneous differentiation and regression of NB reported in some infants is a salient and a unique feature in human oncology (Brodeur et al, 1993).

Endothelial dysfunction is a salient and, likely a unifying feature of metabolic syndrome that translates systemic risk factors into vascular pathology [ 2].

Two contrasting scenarios could equally explain the current geographic pattern of the Y chromosome introgression: (A) a static consensus centre and westward geographic incursion of the musculus Y chromosome, forming a bulge or salient; and (B) a dynamic consensus centre that has moved eastwards, leaving an invagination of the musculus Y chromosome in its wake.

Constant time bin and conditional sampling provide matching results when spatial information is salient and represents a major determinant in the clustering procedure (Fig. 4).

N2pc amplitude has been shown to be sensitive to shifts of attention between a highly salient distractor and a less salient target [16] [17].

Overall, the health and 'mouth' images had the strongest visual impact, although only the latter were consistently easily understood, salient, and represented an immediate threat.

Here, out of context and placed end to end (a method not unfamiliar to his attackers), are some of Machiavelli's most salient and satanic points: "A prince, particularly a new prince, cannot afford to cultivate attributes for which men are considered good.

Bush prevailed on Sharon to ease the disruption of Palestinian lives along the the security fence, which I think will encompass the Ariel salient, and to delay a Jordan Valley barrier.