The need for outside help has led to several conciliatory gestures, including the recent repatriation of kidnap victims to Japan, family exchanges with South Korea and apologies for some of its past egregious spying and aggression.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the more theatrical Tory Brexiteers, likened the idea of a special deal for the North to a call for Britain to be "dismembered" in an "egregious act of aggression".
Perhaps the most egregious act of aggression occurred between the white lines of the baseball diamond, and not in the foul territory that was the rest of the city.
Levels of customer service are still probably the worst of any European capital, but truly egregious rudeness and aggression are now the exception rather than the norm, as a whole generation of Muscovites who have travelled the world no longer find surly, Soviet-style service acceptable at home.
"Should you try to take action or look the other way?" Israel chose not to ignore the article, he said, because it was so egregious and could end up causing "physical aggression".
The United States and Israel have threatened -- and continue to threaten -- a military strike on Iran, an egregious violation of international law and imperial aggression.
Under the I.C.C. definition, an enforceable crime of aggression would only capture the most egregious violations of the U.N. Charter, leaving out — to the consternation of many pacifists — leaders implicated in "gray-area" interventions.
No insult is too great; no threat is too dangerous; no real meddling by Iran in the affairs of American allies in the region or even aggression against U.S. assets and forces is too egregious.
