In a more blatant example, Fretter Appliance stores claimed " I ’ ll give you five pounds of coffee if I can ’ t beat your best deal ".

Although aware of Junpei's blatant affections for her, she does not reciprocate ( although she does use them to her advantage, for example when getting Junpei to volunteer to be live bait to catch a giant shark by saying " Pretty please ").

In general the book is regarded as blatant example of pro-Soviet propaganda and not credible.

Though both songs are about unrequited desire for the title character, the humor of " The Boy From ..." stems partly from the fact that the narrator is completely unaware of her crush's blatant homosexuality, as, for example, illustrated in the song's second bridge: " Why are his trousers vermilion?

This angered feminists who claimed " This is another blatant example of the alcohol industry objectifying women to move product ".

Prominent critics in the human rights community, such as Prof. Louis Henkin ( non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause ) and Prof. Jordan Paust (" Rarely has a treaty been so abused ") have denounced the United States ' ratification subject to the non-self-execution declaration as a blatant fraud upon the international community, especially in light of its subsequent failure to conform domestic law to the minimum human rights standards as established in the Covenant and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights over the last thirty years.

Purebred dog breeders of today " have inherited a breeding paradigm that is, at the very least, a bit anachronistic in light of modern genetic knowledge, and that first arose out of a pretty blatant misinterpretation of Darwin and an enthusiasm for social theories that have long been discredited as scientifically insupportable and morally questionable.

This was a blatant effort to at least gain sympathy among German Jews for the plight of their eastern European brethren.

Charter 77 protested discrimination in educational admissions based on parents ' political activity ; there was some indication by the late 1970s that, if parental sins could still be visited on the children, at least questions concerning their parents ' past and present political affiliations would be less blatant.

Efforts to curtail the line-crossing ceremony did not begin until the 1980s, when several reports of blatant hazing began to circulate regarding the line-crossing ceremony, and at least one death was attributed to abuse while crossing the line.

She also is what I consider a classic Indian beauty .... her natural, distinctive Indian looks set her apart from many other heroines ( I say heroines because many have yet to learn to act, and cannot justfully be called actresses yet ), she proves that she does not need blatant blond / red highlights, tons of body paint and makeup, blue contacts, and scraps of clothes to look beautiful ... and that the complete following of Western trends isn ´ t worth sacrificing traditional Indian beauty, grace, and respect for popularity ... a mixture of both that remains respectable ... it ´ s quality rather than quantity ( or lackthereof, in the clothes department ).

: Her manipulation of sources is sometimes so blatant as to be naive, for even a cursory reader can spot what is going on.

In 1457 the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla wrote: "... the claim of ' Dionysius '... that he observed the eclipse of the sun at the hour of the Saviour's death ... is as blatant a fiction as the epistolary form of the report.

The blatant ridiculousness of the question is apparent along with its circular nature.

In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.

These measurements test both overt honesty, the thoughts one has about blatant dishonesty such as stealing, and covert honesty, which is very similar to conscientiousness and dependability.

In a manner that mocks the nature of many non-profit religious organizations, the church is known for blatant appeals for money from believers and non-believers alike.

A plot hole, or plothole, is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot, or constitutes a blatant omission of relevant information regarding the plot.

Witness coaching by the prosecution is even more blatant as they call in other jail inmates awaiting sentencing to testify against Manion, and is portrayed as subornation of perjury to an extent.

The most blatant form of crony capitalism is the creation of a liberal economic system in which only some people (" cronies ") are permitted property rights by the government in return for support for the regime, allowing supporters of the regime to expropriate any capital held by opponents.

East Broadway, which is Manhattan's center of Fuzhou culture, has perhaps the most blatant results of illegal apartment subdivisions including having so many bunk beds in just one tiny room.

Deception detection between relational partners is extremely difficult, unless a partner tells a blatant or obvious lie or contradicts something the other partner knows to be true.

* When Chon Wang is fighting the police in New York City, it is a blatant reference to the Keystone Cops of early silent film.

Critics of the CPA argue that these policies were not only rather blatant attempts to shape Iraq's economy in the interests of American ( and other ) investors and against the interests of Iraqis themselves, but also that they were illegal under international law, because an occupying power is prohibited from rewriting the laws of the occupied country.

Her name is a pun on " vulva ", and her show has heavy lesbian / anti-male overtones ( all of the villains are male while all the heroes are female ), not to mention blatant advertising of Velva merchandise and numerous genital references.

Luisito Vigoreaux is famous for his ( sometimes self-deprecating ) sense of humor and blatant frankness.

* On the Burns and Allen radio show, the book is often spoofed for its blatant references, usually with Gracie Allen commenting on it naively not knowing what it is all about.

Finally, there is the blatant disclaimer at the close of Henry IV, Part 2 that discriminates between the two figures: " for Oldcastle died martyr, and this is not the man " ( Epilogue, 29 – 32 ).

He considered the war a blatant attempt to extend slavery and asked if the country was made up of " a people bent on conquest, on getting the golden treasures of Mexico into our hands, and of subjugating foreign peoples?

Some sociologists have also pointed out, with reference to the USA and elsewhere, that forms of racism have in many instances mutated from more blatant expressions hereof into more covert kinds ( albeit that blatant forms of hatred and discrimination still endure ).

When it was admitted that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence.

To some, it was a blatant gerrymander intended to force Holden into retirement.

Joanna Dark was criticized by Trigger Happy author Steven Poole, who described her character design as " a blatant and doomed attempt to steal the thunder of Lara Croft ", and argued that she illustrated the challenges of injecting characterisation into the protagonists of first-person shooters.

Previously Cagiva had attempted to move into this market with a more blatant Harley-Davidson cruiser imitation, the heavily chromed Ducati Indiana of 1986 – 1990.

Alan Gold, president of the association said, " It's a blatant attack on the independence of the judiciary, it's an attempt to intimidate judges into imposing higher sentences and that's simply inexcusable.

The equal treatment meted out by English rulers soon changed into open blatant discrimination.

The Soup will often make blatant and obvious edits to clips of shows, often killing off characters ( as in their versions of Laguna Beach and The Hills ) or splicing McHale and other characters into the shows.

The Petitioner sarcastically notes that " The Respondent now takes the position that the State of Hawaii has a compelling interest in engaging in blatant discrimination today – and indefinitely into the future – in order to make up for even-handed treatment of all Hawaiian citizens, regardless of race, in the past " ( 32 ).

Practical religious rituals of Troyebratstvo ( including all the traditional Russian Orthodox elements, organized into highly unusual, rather risqué kind of family spectacle ) by many was seen as most blatant blasphemy and divided the St. Petersburg intellectual elite: Vasily Rozanov was fascinated by the thinly veiled eroticism of the happening, while among those outraged was Nikolai Berdyaev.

However, all of this is complicated by the fact that The Cantos themselves contain very little evidence of Pound's otherwise blatant anti-semitism: in fact, in a close study of the poem, Wendy Stallard Flory concluded that it contained only seven passages of anti-Semitic sentiment in the 803 pages she read.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

her motives were too blatant.

This may include the impeachment of the vice president, although legal theories suggest that allowing a defendant to be the judge in his own case would be a blatant conflict of interest.

Moore says that, “ references to Roman locales must have been stunning for they are not merely references to things Roman, but the most blatant possible reminders that the production occurs in the city of Rome .” So, Plautus seems to have choreographed his plays somewhat true-to-life.

Sports such as gymnastics rate competitors on a numeric scale, although the fact that judges ' ratings are public makes it less likely for them to engage in blatant tactical voting.

According to HRW, those extrajudicial executions would qualify as forced disappearances if they had been carried out by agents of the government or on its behalf, but nevertheless remained " blatant violations of the FARC-EP's obligations under international humanitarian law and in particular key provisions of article 4 of Protocol II, which protects against violence to the life, physical, and mental well-being of persons, torture, and ill-treatment.

The book featured analysis of writing extracts from established intellectuals that contained blatant abuses of scientific terminology.

In the end, the disease infected the crew members of the SCS Goliath, a powerful warship, whose commander, Raemes T. Quirk ( a rather blatant spoof of Captain Kirk, as portrayed by William Shatner ), subsequently attacks the Eureka.

The blatant disregard of international law and violations of international borders were ignored.

In Athens itself, he lost favour by building a sanctuary of Artemis, with the epithet Aristoboulë (" of good counsel ") near his home, a blatant reference to his own role in delivering Greece from the Persian invasion.

Nevertheless, it was a clear, indeed blatant, breach of the anti ‑ trust legislation ; though until that time such legislation had, in the spirit of the age, been more honored in the breach rather than by adherence.

According to another Grant biographer, Jean E. Smith, it was " one of the most blatant examples of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in American history.

Variations ( sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant ) in the 50 political cultures of the states yield considerable differences overall in what it means to be, or to vote, Democratic or Republican.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

It was after this battle that she, in a blatant act of vengeance, ordered the execution of two Yorkist prisoners-of-war, William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, and Sir Thomas Kyriel, who had kept watch over King Henry to keep him out of harm's way during the battle.

Nasser, like most Egyptians, saw this as a blatant violation of Egyptian sovereignty and wrote " I am ashamed that our army has not reacted against this attack.