Sentence examples for is so flagrant from inspiring English sources

"The question of the treatment of day laborers is so flagrant, I feel it viscerally," Mr. Perales says, leaning over to emphasize the point.

But, again and again, such disregard of fundamental fairness is so flagrant that the Court is compelled, as it was only a week ago, to reverse a conviction in which prejudicial newspaper intrusion has poisoned the outcome.

In many cases, sloppy procedures and an apparent bias in favor of fellow officers combine to guarantee that even the most brutal police avoid punishment for serious violations until committing an abuse that is so flagrant, so unavoidably embarrassing, that it cannot be ignored.

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.

Although the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have intervened in numerous cases to correct abuses, they can do so only piecemeal, and only when the abuse is so flagrant that deference typically given to the conduct of state officials is inappropriate.

"The elite machinations of Jakarta politics are so flagrant, it's disgusting," says one cabinet minister.

"Some actions are so flagrant that they can't be accidental," Mr. Holt said.

"Last year, things were so flagrant, no one even questioned an $800,000 proposal for lighting and audio," she said.

Absentee ballot fraud was so flagrant in Miami's 1997 mayoral contest that the courts invalidated the results and ordered a new election.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a backlash in the United States and other trading partners, prompting threats of retaliation.

In Peru, the cheating was so flagrant that the United States was quick to condemn the election and talk about a regional response, though a divided OAS was unable to agree on anything at its first attempt this week.