But critics say that community service is a blatantly unfair mandate to punish poor minority residents of public housing developments.
Such a hardline approach may be understandable after the shabby way in which the interests of poor countries were blatantly ignored in the last round of talks, but it is leading to stagnation in Geneva.
Nicholas D. Kristof's description of Prudence Lemokouno's last hours ("Prudence's Struggle Ends," column, Sept. 24) was heartbreaking, and the fact that these needless deaths are concentrated among poor, rural African women is blatantly unjust.
The current Justice Department is also actively allowing laws to proceed that blatantly disenfranchise the votes of people of color, the poor and the elderly ― that is frightening at best.
He cites exam standards being lowered to cut failure rates; students who "regularly trade their bodies" to pass their exams; others who blame their poor marks on "racist" teachers; and those who blatantly cheat and threaten to secure that piece of paper.According to Mr Jansen, South Africa has no "great" universities, only six or seven "good" ones.
The rules can be blatantly unfair: witness China's limits to migration, which keep the poor in the countryside.
"We weren't necessarily expecting this administration to...so blatantly use [the aid cutoff] against one of the poorest countries in Latin America," indignantly remarked Angélica Navarro, Bolivia's lead climate negotiator.
Our schools would be poorer if all potentially triggering material – hell, if all offensive, sexist, blatantly feminist unapproved material – were removed from them, and if students could not engage with troubling material.
Arguably they deserved to be disqualified for such poor sportsmanship - or perhaps just for being stupid enough to do it so blatantly in such a public arena.
Devout people who are narcissistic and exercise poor ethical judgment would be committing acts that are, according to their own internalized value system, blatantly hypocritical.
