Replacing them with British settlers was, she says, a "blatant exercise in nineteenth-century colonialism".
Marking the 180th anniversary of the date on which she says Argentina was forcibly stripped of the islands in a "blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism," Ms. Fernández de Kirchner urged Britain to negotiate the return of the disputed territory.
Buenos Aires, January 3rd, 2013 Mr Prime Minister David Cameron, One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000km (8700 miles) away from London.
The Argentine president says the islands were forcibly stripped from Argentina in "a blatant exercise of 19th Century colonialism".
Reversing this rule was a blatant exercise of big bank lobbying power.
A tour for EU diplomats jointly organised by Shell and the Dutch presidency of the EU has been branded a "blatant PR exercise" by campaigners.
Brook Riley, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth Europe said: "It is disgraceful to see Shell splurging profits from dirty, dangerous gas extraction on a blatant PR exercise, with the full support of the Dutch government.
That they are run with a scant interest in building the tech startup eco-system and appear to be a gratuitous and blatant revenue raising exercise rather than a prestigious event which can gain a startup traction amongst investors.
But if some of Mr. Kagan's efforts to place America's current difficulties within a historical perspective (comparing, say, the challenges posed by China today to the threat of the Soviet Union during the cold war) can be instructive, others devolve into odd exercises in relativism or blatant rationalizations of current woes.
The whole business was a classic exercise in propaganda, so blatant as to verge on kitsch.
