Sentence examples for flagrant act of from inspiring English sources

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.

Quite why Disney hasn't already dispatched a well-armed militia of lawyers to shut down this flagrant act of intellectual property violation is unclear.

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.

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.

Quite how this is supposed to be "good" for the economy has never been satisfactorily explained, and it has taken the worst financial crisis in more than a century, the deepest slump since the Great Depression and flagrant acts of wrongdoing for Britain's policy elite to conclude that there is – in Sir Mervyn King's words – something "very wrong" with the banks.

"This is the result of a feeling of entitlement, flagrant disobedience of the law and disregard for moral values that was then exacerbated by egregious acts of self-preservation.