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The incident was deemed to have been 'behavior that is flagrant and particularly injurious to the success of a tournament or is singularly egregious'".

The problem is that these debris dumps lay the ground for illegal reclamation of land, in flagrant violation of a law restricting construction on coastal areas.

We cannot allow the Tories to get away with using a flagrant abuse of power to impose the most severe austerity this country has seen since the second world war".

The British ambassador to the UN, Mark Lyall Grant, said there had been "flagrant disregard" for the ceasefire that started just after midnight on Sunday and called on Russia to "deliver on the promises it has made".

Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: "We are delighted that common sense has prevailed and the Met has woken up to the fact that they cannot get away with such flagrant abuse of the Official Secrets Act.This was an outrageous attack on a central tenet of journalism – the protection of our sources.

Despite this flagrant abuse of the spirit of a World Cup in which access to tickets was a huge issue, Fifa's executive committee limply pulled its punches, expressing only "disapproval" and allowing Warner to remain in post.

Hill's execution would be a flagrant violation of the US supreme court's own ruling in 2002, Atkins v Virginia, that banned the death sentence for prisoners classified as "mentally retarded".

During an inspection by the Care Quality Commission, the Mid Essex trust was also found to be using unregistered nurses in the role of fully-qualified, registered nurses – the first time its inspectors have ever come across such a flagrant breach of the nurse registration system.

The federation criticised Mr Hardwick personally, whom it said "in flagrant breach of his own instructions... set about drip-feeding some information to the media on the state of the [De Menezes] inquiry".

Corruption and patronage within the ANC have become increasingly flagrant.

In "Nudge", the 2008 book by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler that brought the Orwellian terminology of "libertarian paternalism" to a popular audience, "libertarian" was used, sensibly enough, to mean "choice-preserving" and "paternalism" was used with such flagrant disregard of conventional meaning that it was made to include everything that might help anyone ever make a good decision.

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