Sentence examples for flagrant act from inspiring English sources

This is a flagrant act against the church".

And there are several tracts of Lebanese territory under Israeli control in a flagrant act of encroachment".

On Election Day, the pseudo-populist enrages of the suburbs turned out in great numbers, determined to punish Florio for his flagrant act of realism and responsibility.

The Piedmont High water polo team falls woefully short of these standards, selling cupcakes, caramel apples and lemon bars off campus in a flagrant act of nutritional disobedience.

Luther's father, a well-off smelting master, wanted young Martin to marry into money; instead, in a flagrant act of disobedience, he became a tonsured Augustinian monk.

In a flagrant act of political nose-thumbing, Mr Blagojevich defiantly tapped Mr Burris anyway, daring the Senate to reject his choice, who would be the only black member of the chamber.

Some cite the No Child Left Behind education policy and the U.S.A. Patriot Act under President George W. Bush as flagrant acts of federal overreaching.

The constants in the story are intimidation, black marketeering, payoffs, drunkenness, and crass indifference, and the many flagrant acts include rape and execution, the latter both officially sanctioned and private.

Major deals came and went with record companies dropping great bands in flagrant acts of negligence and stupidity, and it's hard not to feel that some of them should have been world-beaters.

The last of these was four years ago, when goal-scoring and opinion-splitting specialist Luis Suárez pulled off an understandable if shameless handball to stop Ghana scoring in the quarter-final, one of the most flagrant acts of cheating in the tournament's impressive history of wilful skulduggery.

The evidence points towards this being a flagrant and dishonest act that has caused the claimant considerable distress".