Word: salients
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...don’t really think about them within the context of the ‘Pear Tree,’” Muir adds. In fact, the most salient characteristic of the exhibit may be the complex dialogue established among the various themes engaged...
...Chidambaram's budget is one of the more salient proofs that the new government has remembered its origins. The budget, which increases spending on a range of antipoverty measures, is easily the most ambitious effort to channel India's robust economic growth into solving its most enduring problem. "Given the resilience of the Indian economy," the Finance Minister said in his speech to India's Parliament, "it is possible to ... launch a direct assault on poverty and unemployment." He then earmarked $5.7 billion for a series of programs aimed at bolstering education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially...
...This salient fact was observed by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which went into force in 2002 and forbade the execution of juveniles, has been signed by every nation in the world except the U.S. and Somalia. Somalia is in a state of anarchy. The U.N. is not normally a place for bandwagoning; given the vast number of countries that exist, there are dozens of cultural perspectives on the place of capital punishment in society. That representatives of each of these viewpoints could come to similar conclusions is prima facie...
...their coalition is made up of conservative Catholics who oppose any kind of birth-control devices; others are hostile to any adoption rights for gay couples. Still others may fear that if the number of abortions drops significantly, their argument for making it completely illegal may become less salient...
...This salient conflict pervades the film and is subtly highlighted by Hereniko’s direction of the most mundane aspects of daily life. Viki is in many ways a typical Rotuman girl, learning traditional dances and helping her father harvest coconuts; however, she also studies English in a modern, Western-style school and dreams of earning a prestigious scholarship to leave Rotuma for the big island of Fiji...