Sentence examples for blatant conflict from inspiring English sources

The two personas are in blatant conflict.

That, they said, was a blatant conflict of interest.

Yet his actions represented a blatant conflict of interest and a misuse of corporate funds.

Allowing Paterno to become the most powerful was a blatant conflict, a recipe for shame.

The auditors discussed the blatant conflict among themselves but did nothing to check it.

"There is blatant conflict of interest over the site," said Cecil.

The board's executive director, Mark Davies, said yesterday that he did not see the most blatant conflict-of-interest issue as applicable to Mr. Bloomberg.

He has his own problems: his blatant conflicts of interest (he owns three television stations), his outstanding trials on charges of corruption, his dubious friends (the National Alliance, one of his partners, has fascist ancestors).

Imperious and ever willing to skirt legal niceties, he has alienated even close political allies in recent months with a succession of outrageous scandals, blatant conflicts of interest and special laws crafted to shield him from prosecution.

But the Bush administration, with its sense of entitlement, seems unconcerned by even the most blatant conflicts of interest -- like the plan of Marc Racicot, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, to continue drawing a seven-figure salary as a lobbyist.

In a recent speech, Laura Unger, the acting chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, warned Wall Street firms to resolve the "blatant" conflicts that surrounded the business of bringing shares to the public and then recommending them to investors.