Sentence examples for act of outright from inspiring English sources

A few Socialist deputies, who have abstained recently over the budget, have even threatened to vote against the Macron law, an act of outright rebellion.

Administration officials said the Pentagon has never formally opposed the transfers, an act of outright resistance to a high-profile presidential commitment that risks reprisal.

Manchester United came calling for Arsenal's best player and Arsenal lay on their backs with their legs in the air and fluffed up their stomachs in an act of outright submission.

With the support of the three others, he carried his crusade into Kansas, where in 1856 he and his sons murdered five pro-slavery settlers in an act of outright terrorism.

Pakistan claimed that the aircraft had been flying over Pakistani Kashmir, but this was denied by India.Whatever actually happened, the use by India of air power so close to Pakistan's side may be viewed as a threat, if not an act of outright aggression.

The health care law was "rammed through Congress and rammed down the throats of the American people," Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina declared on "Face the Nation," echoing a chorus of other Republicans who have used the same metaphor to cast the law's passage — accomplished partly through the technical process known as budget reconciliation — as an act of outright treachery.

It is one way to understand why people upload things that make us gasp, from my friend's playful bare-all portrait to more sinister, illegal activities, like the defacing of parks and monuments with graffiti and other acts of outright vandalism.

"So accustomed do we become to the violence and obscenity of Mr. Price's world," he wrote, "that any act short of outright murder assumes a quality of near-Chekhovian understatement".

That infamous shot of the bomber flipping the bird was probably more of an act of boredom than outright anger, but reporters covering the case live didn't have that context.

With upcoming World Cup games including superstars like "winker" Ronaldo (Portugal vs Germany - June 16), "diva" Robben (Netherlands vs Spain, June 13), and "bite me" Suárez (Uruguay vs Costa Rica, June 14), be prepared to see more controversial calls surrounding acts of gamesmanship and of outright cheating.

It would be impossible to receive a courtesy card without viewing it as an outright act of aggression.