Violence is conspicuously absent from the list.

The local press was conspicuously absent from the conference.

Conspicuously, there is much in the Narrative that coincides with Europe s emphasis on soft power.

But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama s hectic agenda?

Not only is foreign capital conspicuously absent, but so are foreign managers, workers, intellectuals, and ideas.

This is a quote from that article. He said, What is conspicuously lacking, he's a very proper British gentleman so, What is conspicuously lacking is a broad framework of ideas in which to interpret these different approaches.

Yet this model has conspicuously failed to protect host countries against the systemic risk of excessive capital inflows.

Here Bush is conspicuously absent without leave (AWOL in military jargon). Time and again, he questions the scientific evidence.

Part of the raw appeal of pornography, it seems, is that the product itself be raw, and conspicuously illicit.

It should also be noted that while Mao was conspicuously absent in the Olympics, his communist legacy was present in subtle ways.

Conspicuously, Haiti s Dominican neighbors were the first to gauge the magnitude of the problem and the global nature of the required solution.

Chen s personal wealth grew conspicuously shortly after he assumed office, but no one could produce hard evidence of his corruption back then.

Back then, Greece conspicuously failed to meet a plethora of basic convergence criteria, owing to its massive debt and its relative economic and political backwardness.

In a recent speech to the French defense industry, Sarkozy conspicuously failed to repeat the pledge, instead warning that he soon might cut France s defense budget.

Conspicuously, it is no longer the British, but France s government under President Nicolas Sarkozy, that is carrying the torch of a possible attack on Iran s nuclear installations.

While Holocaust deniers have been purged from German universities, Russian universities employ a number of professors of Russian history who conspicuously maintain the Gulag's absence from their lectures.

Of the 12 large OECD economies, three Germany, Italy, and France were conspicuously un dynamic they missed the 1990's investment boom or were awfully late to it.

Although both Nadya Tolokno and Masha Alekhina of Pussy Riot remained conspicuously silent on the Feygin news, Yekaterina Samutsevich took the opportunity to comment on his past record

Not only is foreign capital conspicuously absent, but so are foreign managers, workers, intellectuals, and ideas. Universities, think tanks, and the media are for the most part insular institutions.

But plans for a functioning Palestinian state that do not depend on foreign aid have been conspicuously absent, save for the recent efforts of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

Conspicuously, the 1992 Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula remains to this day a dead letter simply because of the latent state of war between the two Koreas.

Conspicuously, the recently elected PLO Executive Committee which in the past consisted exclusively of representatives of the Palestinian Diaspora now has only one member from the diaspora, a delegate from Lebanon.

Conspicuously, whole battalions of this splinter Sunni army are being named after early Muslim heroes, such as Khalid bin al Walid, the companion to the prophet Muhammad who conquered the Levant

On a miserable March morning, with a sparkling layer of ice glazing a foot of filthy snow, a coterie of Chicago s urban farmers toils in shirtsleeves and sneakers, their fingernails conspicuously clean.

Conspicuously, notable figures on the Israeli right among them Former Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, who is also a political mentor of Netanyahu, and Knesset Speaker Rubi Rivlin mirror the Jordanians s position.

Conspicuously, Latin America s last Marxist insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), declared a unilateral cease fire just hours after the announcement that the US and Cuba would restore diplomatic ties.

Conspicuously, Bashir s regime has been disqualified in the eyes of its neighbors in Africa and the Arab world to a degree that makes the South s secession a more acceptable option to the main regional stakeholders than ever before.

It is ironic indeed that US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a former head of Goldman Sachs, a firm that exemplifies financial triumphalism, is spearheading the effort to save government sponsored behemoths that have so conspicuously outlived their usefulness.

The late 1990's produced evidence that low dynamism was associated with weak economic performance, particularly low prosperity. Of the 12 large OECD economies, three Germany, Italy, and France were conspicuously un dynamic they missed the 1990's investment boom or were awfully late to it.

Conspicuously, notable figures on the Israeli right among them Former Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, who is also a political mentor of Netanyahu, and Knesset Speaker Rubi Rivlin mirror the Jordanians s position. Whereas the latter champion the concept of one political space that would include the two banks of the Jordan River, the Israelis respond with their own concept of one political space between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.