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"flagrant acts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to acts that are especially obvious, blatant, or shocking in their disregard for rules or morality. Example: The government's flagrant acts of corruption have sparked widespread outrage among the citizens.
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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.
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.
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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.
Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said in a statement that the detention of Mr. Totah and Mr. Abu Arafeh 24 hours later was a "flagrant act of aggression".
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.
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