Sentence examples for blatant misuse from inspiring English sources

But he called Grant's attempt to seek a trial a "blatant misuse" of the judicial system and an "attempt to extort concessions". He has not responded to requests for comment.

The act was repealed a year after his arrest on account of its blatant misuse.

Such blatant misuse of psychiatry was common in the Soviet Union for many years.

One hopes that the World Psychiatric Association will act expeditiously and forcefully to protest this blatant misuse of psychiatry.

The most blatant misuse of the program has been to support large hydropower dam projects, said Mr. McCully of International Rivers.

Bobcat is an anti-gun-control, get-off-my-lawn type who has been roused to anger by what he considers a blatant misuse of the Brooklyn Bridge.

While curbing the most blatant misuses of federal money, the agreement will allow states to increase Medicaid payments to public hospitals that serve "a disproportionate number of low-income patients".

Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the LRB and a long-time neighbour, characterises his position as consistent with his strong anti-appeasement views of the second-world war: the Suez crisis and this Gulf war, he feels, are blatant misuses of the anti-appeasement argument.

One law lord accused Dame Shirley of a "blatant and dishonest misuse of public power".

Lord Bingham said: "The passage of time and the familiarity of the accusations made against them cannot and should not obscure the unpalatable truth that this was a deliberate, blatant and dishonest misuse of public power.

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