Why am I to be left so conspicuously alive?

Donald J. Trump, while conspicuously friendly toward Russia, is still seen as unpredictable.

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.

In fact, time lines for the completion of some projects are conspicuously missing from the annex.

But there is one sector of our lives where adoption of information technology has lagged conspicuously health care.

What is conspicuously lacking in the report is a quantification of the impact of the measures taken by the Department of Management.

One issue related to the peace and security agenda that was conspicuously missing from the summit outcome document is disarmament and non proliferation.

And, to top it all, the subject of disarmament and international security was most conspicuously absent from the 2005 Summit Outcome (resolution 60 1).

Whereas multilateral discipline had proved its worth in many fields of trade, it remained conspicuously absent in the area of currency, exchange rates and finance.

Statistics on these crimes are conspicuously lacking moreover, the few complaints received are rarely followed up, and when they are, only a tiny proportion of the culprits are convicted.

So a casual production style was adopted, similar to the design of worn and ripped jeans. Part of the raw appeal of pornography, it seems, is that the product itself be raw, and conspicuously illicit.

In other words, Palestinians are playing a long game. 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.

Chen s personal wealth grew conspicuously shortly after he assumed office, but no one could produce hard evidence of his corruption back then. His political supporters initially brushed aside the mushrooming rumors of his self enrichment as opposition KMT propaganda.

No matter what criterion one uses, Japan's economy remains the most closed among OECD countries and one of the most closed in the world. Not only is foreign capital conspicuously absent, but so are foreign managers, workers, intellectuals, and ideas.

But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama s hectic agenda? There, both the resilience of the local political culture and strategic imperatives are converging to define the limits of the West s capacity to impose its values.

It is as if the voice of the diaspora were being silenced in Palestine. 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.

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. According to a respected defense industry publication, Sarkozy changed his mind after his party s smaller than anticipated victory in June s parliamentary election.

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. Though terror in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia created many millions of victims, the memories of these events are vastly different.

First and foremost, the eurozone countries decision to admit Greece to the single currency in 2002 was woefully irresponsible, with French advocacy deserving much of the blame. 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.

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. Over the last two years, Cuba has hosted peace negotiations between FARC and the Colombian government, with full US support.

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. Indeed, the Arab world as a whole seems to have given up on Bashir.

Strengthening the Rule of Law, Building State Institutions, Protecting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms occupies first place in the ENP Action Plan. Though judicial independence and protection of human rights remain conspicuously weak, Saakashvili s government has increased the civil service s efficiency, improved public infrastructure, fought corruption, reduced crime, and created an attractive investment environment.

Conspicuously, Haiti s Dominican neighbors were the first to gauge the magnitude of the problem and the global nature of the required solution. The Dominican government s decision to hold a summit on Haiti s future has the objective of securing the international community s ongoing commitment to Haiti, beyond the generous response to the catastrophe produced by the earthquake in January.

Against this background, Saudi leaders remain conspicuously wary of popular empowerment and disruption of the Arab order that they have dominated for the last three decades. For Saudi Wahhabism, in which absolute power is granted to the royal family by religious mandate, innovative forms of political Islam that anchor legitimacy in genuine representation are a strategic threat.

Indeed, beyond widely discussed targets for energy production for 2030 covering greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, and renewable resources the European Council s conclusions embrace key elements of a practical and effective approach to energy. But, in order to move from aspiration to implementation, Europeans must muster the unity of purpose that so far has been conspicuously absent in EU energy policy.

But perhaps most conspicuously absent from both precautionary and proactionary thinking is the old welfare state ideal that we might procreate at will in a world where our offspring are assured a secure existence. For all of their substantial disagreements, both sides dismiss this prospect as a twentieth century fantasy that was only temporarily realized in Northern Europe for a few decades after World War II.

Obama s recent wavering on the use of force in Syria has left many in Asia doubting whether they can rely on America not only if China forcibly asserts its maritime claims, but also if North Korea carries out its threats to attack the South. Conspicuously, South Korean President Park Geun hye s Trustpolitik a soft power approach to North Korea that calls for deeper cooperation with China, the North s most important ally is particularly popular.

Choe Ryong hae, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Korean Workers Party, was conspicuously present on stage at the commemoration of the second anniversary of Dear Leader Kim Jong il s death the first major ceremony following the purge and execution of Jang Song thaek, the former vice chairman of the National Defense Commission. Choe s speech, with its threats against the United States and South Korea, seemed to set the stage for his political elevation.

Many kinds of pushback can be expected, not least the argument that the veto exists not to protect the P5 s interests, but to ensure unanimity of the major players (conspicuously missing in the UN s ill fated predecessor, the League of Nations) in any action undertaken, in order to maintain international peace and security. We will be told that it is unconscionable to ask a P5 member to forgo a veto when it genuinely believes that a proposed resolution will cause more harm than good.