Sentence examples for egregious power from inspiring English sources

Far from glamorizing sex with egregious power imbalances, the show explores sexual abjection as the penalty the culture exacts on the average-looking woman for the offense of her averageness.

"The pomposity of its architecture can no longer dignify the log-rolling, the gerrymandering, the lobbyists' egregious power, the money sloshing everywhere and the partisan polarization that drips from every news program".

For him, President George W. Bush was a decidedly mixed bag; he liked the tax cuts but thought the USA Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind and the Medicare drug program were egregious federal power-grabs.

I largely blame the media for this egregious abuse of power and influence.

But the movie is a vivid reminder of one of the most egregious abuses of power in history, and there are deliciously diabolical turns by actors playing Scooter Libby, David Addington and Rove.

They had assumed that voters would not notice this egregious display of power and would overlook the fact that they had fundamentally changed the way our representative democracy operates.

We now have the full report of this egregious abuse of power and its six-year cover-up, and the evidence that she has been lying all along is damning.

The Sergei Magnitsky case revealed egregious abuses of power that continue to plague Putin's Russia and which ultimately led to the tragic demise of the 37-year-old tax attorney Magnitsky, while he was held captive in a maximum security Russian prison.

If someone at the White House, perhaps acting with institutional sanction, revealed the name of a C.I.A. operative to undermine the credibility of Mr. Wilson and thus stifle dissent over Iraq policy, that in itself would be a serious assault on free speech and an egregious abuse of power.

One can only hope that, now Barack Obama has been re-elected, he will make good on his promises to end some of the most egregious abuses of power brought about by the "war on terror" that have allowed these disgraceful pre-trial detention conditions to arise.

I would happily take a bet that unrequited love has caused egregious abuses of power in every intelligence agency — in the past and into the foreseeable future (it was even the plot line for James Cameron's 1994 spy rom-com, True Lies).