Sentence examples for blatant power from inspiring English sources

Erdoğan's Putin-style attempt to revise Turkey's constitution to create an all-powerful executive presidency is seen by many Turks as a blatant power grab.

Another blatant power grab will make things even worse.

Every merger is painful, entailing massive layoffs, factionalism and blatant power grabs.

"It's a blatant power grab," said John J. Faso, the beleaguered Republican leader in the Assembly.

In a previous post, I argued that over the long term, the N.R.A.'s blatant power play could end up backfiring, as angry citizens assert their democratic rights.

After the ruling, Mr. Zardari dismissed the Punjab provincial government led by Shahbaz Sharif, putting the regional governor in charge in what the Sharifs said was a blatant power grab.

It is an attempt to deflect attention from the militias' blatant abuse of power.

Representative Linda T. Sanchez, a Democrat whose district in southern Los Angeles County is roughly 60percentt Latino, called the raids "a blatant abuse of power" aimed at all Latinos in Southern California.

Khodorkovsky's arrest, in 2003, followed by two ludicrous show trials and imprisonment in the Far East, was Putin's most blatant demonstration of power to the class of oligarchs that had made its fortune in the legal vacuum of the nineties.

I am prepared to pay the costs" Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, said: "The Tehran prosecutor's suspension of a website for publishing an official letter is a blatant abuse of power aimed at suppressing media organisations that are trying to keep officials accountable for their actions".

Sometimes it's one startup stealing another's idea, sometimes it's a VC bullying a founder to get in on a deal, and sometimes it's the blatant abuse of power by some of our industry's most visible "heroes".