"The Pussy Riot singers colluded under unestablished circumstances, for the purpose of offensively violating public peace in a sign of flagrant disrespect for citizens," the court said in a verdict being pronounced on Friday.
Indeed there were many who regarded any form of front-foot activity at all as being – like the wearing of suede shoes, bathing more than once a week, or working in the Co-op soft furnishings department – the sign of a flagrant homosexual, or, more deviant yet, a southerner.
SL Before making his only appearance on the radio show Fighting Talk the erratic Mark Bosnich surprised BBC canteen staff, and the show's producer, by ordering up two bacon baguettes and five cappuccinos and then, in flagrant breach of the no smoking sign on the wall, lighting up a cigar.
"We wanna see you get crazy," demands Philippakis at the start of Providence, before launching himself into the front rows during the song's furious rave-metal coda, in flagrant disobedience of the venue's "no crowdsurfing" signs.
Now the signs of cattle were everywhere, in flagrant violation of the law.
The only place to sit was next to a guy who had noisily pulled out a salad, his own bottle of dressing, a container of hummus, a piece of pita bread and a hunk of sausage, all in flagrant violation of the "No Outside Food or Drinks" sign clearly posted nearby.
North Korea has recently admitted that it has been working on a uranium-enrichment programme in pursuit of creating nuclear weapons, in flagrant violation of four international treaties and agreements it has signed, the latest in 1994.
Ageism in the television broadcast industry is so flagrant that female anchorpersons are usually "retired" at the first signs of a double chin or gray hair.
This is an amusing tchotchke, worth taking home to put in your weird uncle's Christmas stocking, despite the flagrant unlikelihood of anyone writing any kind of novel whatsoever with that sign hanging on his or her door.
One of the most flagrant responses to the Supreme Court's decision was an omnibus anti-voter bill passed in North Carolina and signed into law just six weeks after the Supreme Court decision.
