We have granted you a conspicuous victory.

We have granted you a conspicuous victory.

Mozambique has been a conspicuous success recently.

And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?

And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?

Status driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

In the opportunity culture of the United States, by contrast, conspicuous consumption was more tolerated. High spending was a mark of success what Americans demanded of their rich was conspicuous enterprise.

Especially in Chinese villages, people know how their neighbors are faring. Conspicuous consumption becomes less important when people already know your income.

The efforts to attract FDI are, more often than not, marred by the conspicuous absence of a vibrant domestic investment base in developing countries.

Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year. With the conspicuous exception of China and the less conspicuous exception of Australia, all have had low standard deviations of daily returns for the 100 business day period ending August 3 when compared with the norm for the country.

India's sports minister, Vijay Goel, has been a conspicuous presence at Rio's Olympic Games, frequently spotted in the stands cheering on Indian athletes and taking selfies after their events.

The problem abides, and the most conspicuous theme in the present report is the continuing trend of escalating potential violence in a pattern of protection of entrenched vested interests.

It is the same to Him concerning you whether one conceals his speech or one publicizes it and whether one is hidden by night or conspicuous among others by day.

It is the same to Him concerning you whether one conceals his speech or one publicizes it and whether one is hidden by night or conspicuous among others by day.

And it was quite curious. He said, Of all the differences between the races of men, the color of the skin is the most conspicuous and one of the best marked.

Virtual enterprises are unusually innovative, and, in the business sector, they are possibly the only system that can build a one off product well. A conspicuous example already exists in the movie production industry.

And Solomon succeeded David and said O people, we have been taught the speech of birds and we have been endowed with all kinds of things. Surely this is a conspicuous favour (from Allah).

And Solomon succeeded David and said O people, we have been taught the speech of birds and we have been endowed with all kinds of things. Surely this is a conspicuous favour (from Allah).

There is nothing more inconspicuous than a monument, said the Austrian writer Robert Musil a hundred years ago. From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.

Similarly, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention noted a conspicuous absence of law to regulate refugee status in Argentina, accompanied by mixed detention of those under administrative expulsion orders and common criminals (E CN.4 2004 3 Add.3, para.

But then, if we shift the dial 200, 500 years back, then we get to the places where the corals are absolutely healthy and gorgeous, forming spectacular structures, and where the predators are the most conspicuous thing, where you see between 25 and 50 sharks per dive.

LOS ANGELES Capitalism s greatest strength has been its resiliency its ability to survive the throes and challenges of crises and business cycles to fuel innovation and economic growth. Today, however, more than four years into a credit crisis, a conspicuous enigma calls this legacy into question.

Imposing billions of dollars of fines on the most conspicuous wealth creators is not the way to go. Europe needs to make the likes of Microsoft and Intel feel at home in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin, not to become a political market leader in supplying sympathetic verdicts to market losers.

But to mock someone for having a sensible watch at a modest price puts pressure on others to join the quest for ever greater extravagance. That pressure should be turned in the opposite direction, and we should celebrate those, like Sikorski, with modest tastes and higher priorities than conspicuous consumption.

CANBERRA The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart s and Kenneth Rogoff s article Growth in a Time of Debt may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, published a notorious book, Time on the Cross, defending the efficiency of American plantation slavery.

For all sides the Transitional Federal Government, some individual members of the Transitional Federal Government and the opposition the purchase and acquisition of arms continue to represent the most conspicuous option for the realization of their respective self interests, be they political, religious political or commercial or a combination of all.

As the world reacts to China s crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it. India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has embarked on a campaign to force President Barack Obama to set a red line that Iran must not cross, lest it risk unleashing an American military response. Implicit threats of a unilateral Israeli attack, together with conspicuous meddling in the US presidential election campaign, have compounded Netanyahu s effort to twist Obama s arm.

The conspicuous absence of the reintegration and repatriation elements of the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation process in certain parts of Liberia could lead to a situation whereby a significant proportion of the ex combatants are not reintegrated, thus potentially becoming a destabilizing factor in the achievement of durable peace and democracy in Liberia and stability in the region.

Despite being a largely secular generation, they are using the narrative of jihad (the knife is a conspicuous Islamic State symbol) to defy their parents docility, challenge an incompetent Palestinian leadership, and, most of all, to resist the Israeli occupiers. That is why they have made Islam s holy shrines on Jerusalem s Temple Mount (Haram al Sharif to Muslims) into icons of their rebellion.

For example, although China has done little to bolster the Greek government s balance sheet, its active approach to the crisis has been conspicuous. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Greece in October 2010 and agreed to strengthen cooperation between China and Greece during a meeting with then Prime Minister George Papandreou timely support that the weakened Greek government was delighted to receive.

In response to social housing shortages and rising tensions over increasingly conspicuous social inequality Oman s leaders pledged to build 2,500 housing units for low income families, and to support technical training tailored to job creation. Likewise, Bahrain signed a 550 million public private partnership for housing, 75 of which will be allocated to construction of units for low income people.

In the 1920 s, Germany ended up having to pay only a small fraction of its reparation bill, but the long time it took to get to that point prevented the full recovery of Europe, made Germany itself the most conspicuous victim of the Great Depression, and bred widespread resentment, with dire political consequences. German Chancellor Angela Merkel would do well to ponder that history.

But, as the anti establishment, pro Thaksin red shirts staged huge protests of their own against the army s suppression of their fellow demonstrators in April May of last year, the men in uniform became agitated. A major tipping point may have been the red shirt leaders allusion to the conspicuous royal silence in response to the army s violent suppression, which heightened the army s fear of a clear and present danger to the monarchy.