Sentence examples for blatantly designed from inspiring English sources

Glaser and his crew began wondering how to make a product that was in the middle -- a player that had broad consumer appeal but wasn't blatantly designed for criminal activity.

Republicans insisted on the Senate floor that the bill was blatantly designed to improve the chances of Democrats in the fall election, citing as one example a provision that allows donations of less than $600 to remain anonymous, while requiring disclosure of the rest.

In those days before mass media, countless imitators moved in to capitalize on the success of others, using stage names blatantly designed to confuse anyone who might have vaguely recalled hearing the genuine articles praised: one flea circus impresario, Bertolotto, was followed by the opportunist Bartoletti; Munito the learned dog had to compete with two copycats, Monetto and Minetto.

From launch, Hailo faces stiff competition – Uber is offering free taxi service all this week, in a move blatantly designed to take some of the wind out of Hailo's sails.

Much of the coverage along these lines is subtly (or blatantly) designed to whip up controversy where it doesn't exist, suppress mention of disagreement where there is a dispute, or put words in people's mouths to distort what was actually said.

"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious, and designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and a former director of Saudi intelligence.

Construktiv, the company behind social bookmarking service Mister Wong and Lifestream.fm, has acquired FreundeNews, a German service blatantly modeled and designed after the example of FriendFeed (the startup was actually called FreundeFeed when it first launched in April 2008 but changed its name sometime after, most probably in fear of sparking a trademark dispute).

Federal safety officials on Thursday issued $16.6 million in proposed fines in connection with a huge explosion at a power plant that killed six workers in Middletown, Conn., determining that construction companies had blatantly disregarded industry procedures designed to safeguard workers.

Some of the cartoons were blatantly, roughly sexual, and not designed to endear them to Jews or Christians.

This is an obscene, transparent, blatantly partisan change in the rules, designed to help Republican presidential candidates.

Human Rights Watch cited evidence of Israel "blatantly violating the laws of war designed to spare civilians," including attacks on heavily-populated neighborhoods and shooting at fleeing civilians.