Last night's Oscars were the most blatant example of this.
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The most blatant is its control of institutions that should be independent.
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Reforming city governments had weeded out the most blatant votes-for-favours schemes.
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The most blatant examples we're seeing is from distributors, and not from the companies.
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It's that his performance of outrage is opportunism of the basest and most blatant sort.
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It isn't the first copycat scenario the brand has experienced, but it's the most blatant one.
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Asus's new ZenBook 73, unveiled at IFA 2016, is the most blatant copycat of them all.
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He ingratiated himself in the most blatant and transparent manner possible — he catered to Trump's ego.
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The Twittersphere finally did reach a resolution — the answer lies in the most blatant clue: Kaylan's caption.
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But it showcases the most blatant marketing technique Netflix can deploy with interactive content: programmatic product placement.
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Sometimes, shit sucks, and you need to pour out your soul in the most blatant way possible.
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In the most blatant instances, standing up to the mobsters became its own route to personal enrichment.
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The most blatant and commercial example is Jodie Foster's Money Monster (read Vox's review of the film here).
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So this seems like one of the clearest, most blatant ways he's cashing in on his office already.
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The most blatant example we see of this in "Ripe" is a conversation between Adora and Chief Vickery.
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The chance to do so was one of my first and most blatant incentives for finding my job.
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His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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" It's sexism at its most blatant, and Monse's argument is only strengthened by Cesar's response: "Not if we're together.
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The most blatant example of this are some of the disciples of the 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss.
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These are just the most blatant ways in which the American government is tangled up in Asia's meth wars.
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While this is probably the most blatant shortcoming of the American tax code, it is hardly the only one.
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First, the attack on Medicare will be one of the most blatant violations of a campaign promise in history.
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The most blatant Russian effort to interfere with the 2016 election was by hacking Democrats' emails and then leaking them.
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We had seen hundreds of elephants by that point, but this was the most blatant form of neglect we found.
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Plenty of politicians are happy to take advantage of an American inclination to explain away even the most blatant racism.
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The degree to which the mainstream of civil society has seemingly tolerated the most blatant acts of intolerance is alarming.
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DeVos is the most blatant example of administration officials protecting companies where they once worked, but there are many others.
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The very existence of unrecognized villages is perhaps the most blatant example of the government's cruelty toward its Arab citizens.
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Perhaps the most blatant case was President John F. Kennedy's appointment of his brother Robert to the post of attorney general.
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The most blatant example is red meat, especially processed meats that are high in potentially health-robbing saturated fat and salt.
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Then I remembered the most blatant, terrible example of this: Rainer Devon's awful branding necklaces and the subsequent apology for them.
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" Simon found the conflict of interest during this election to be "the most blatant that I can remember… beyond the pale.
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That prompted 2,000 lawyers to march in protest against what they said was the most blatant interference in the city's judicial independence.
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What I witnessed Monday on the convention floor was one of the most blatant acts of dishonesty and corruption I've ever seen.
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And he had to take on some of the most blatant and ugly racism that we have seen in many, many years.
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Book Entry The last 20 years has seen a reduction in many of the most blatant forms of workplace discrimination against women.
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Even the most blatant falsehood tends to be reported with headlines about how "Democrats say" it's false, not that it's actually false.
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But it shouldn't be a total surprise if the Raptors swing some sort of deal to shore up their most blatant weakness.
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Some of the most blatant ones in the pilot episode include: And those are only some of the references in the first episode.
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Depending on where you work, Instagram's Stories feature is either the most sincere form of flattery or the most blatant form of plagiarism.
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"What happened in my belief, and the belief of many, was the most blatant and consequential blown call in NFL history," Cassidy said.
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The ad, which started running Tuesday morning, comes on the heels of the most blatant appeal to electability yet from the Biden camp.
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The most blatant example would be misjudgments of enemy intent or capacity that could emerge during the course of any particular crisis escalation.
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" The FAA, favoring arbitration, "would then mean nothing at all — its provisions rendered helpless to prevent even the most blatant discrimination against arbitration.
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In his most blatant middle finger to expectations so far, the full-length starts off with a blistering almost four-minute guitar solo.
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The final question, about Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush's unlikely friendship, however, evoked some of the most blatant politicking of the night.
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But in Trump's judgment, Schiff was not merely exaggerating but uttering "lies … made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber" (by which Trump presumably means the US Capitol Building, which is not where the Schiff hearing took place): His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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The test also comes on the heels of Instagram's new Stories feature, which many see as its most blatant attempt at copying Snapchat yet.
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For the most blatant example of this—if not the one with the most severe repercussions—look no further than the Olympic Golf Course.
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Similarly, the government's labour-market reforms have been much less radical than originally promised, targeting only the most blatant abuses of short-term contracts.
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The first, and most blatant, was Spicer's initial spin on the firing: that Donald Trump had had no involvement in getting James Comey fired.
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Trump's ban does not mark a grand departure from American values, but rather presents American values in their ugliest, most blatant and unapologetic form.
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The most blatant example would be evident misjudgments of enemy intent or capacity that could emerge during the course of any particular escalatory crisis.
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The first and last stories are twinned, and they are the book's most blatant meta maneuver, though you don't know it at the start.
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But his responses failed to consider intangible concepts like bias and prejudice, by making the most blatant forms of racism the only forms of racism.
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It was the most blatant trampling on the autonomy of Hong Kong's police since the territory's return to China in 1997—at least, until now.
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There are several incentives in the game that prove this, and the most blatant are "eggs," which are unhatched Pokémon you can acquire at Pokéstops.
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If they can hit the most blatant elements of a popular bottling using inexpensive bulk wine and a bunch of additives, they'll be in business.
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After one of the the most blatant attacks on our democracy to date, he has taken no steps to punish Putin and protect the nation.
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But the most blatant mix up of the night was when the announcer, veteran rapper MC Lyte, announced Yara Shahidi and the #BETInstastar as presenters.
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The repeal of net neutrality "will go down in history as one of the most blatant examples of corruption in our nation's history," Greer said.
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Her husband left her for another woman, and now she's trying to raise two kids on her own, in Stranger Things' most blatant Spielbergian trope.
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"They only got the people who were the most blatant to make examples of them," said Ryan Ward, a Boca Raton-based drug treatment consultant.
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Trump avoided some of his most blatant lies about immigration and the border wall last night, but the entire premise of the speech — a crisis!
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Host Buffalo Bob rather aggressively tells his viewers to tell their moms to buy Hostess Sno-Balls in the most blatant form of child brainwashing imaginable.
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"Taylor is the most blatant example of everything that can go wrong with conventional offshore drilling," says David Manthos, program coordinator at environmental watchdogging nonprofit SkyTruth.
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Blurred lines were most blatant at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — the annual confab where the world's elite fete the former president and discuss world events.
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The encounter is one of the most blatant examples of how Mr. Trump has seen the Justice Department as a tool to use against political rivals.
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"It is the most blatant example of an affront to decisional independence," said Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president emeritus of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
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One of the most blatant examples which did the rounds on Facebook, allegedly compared the results of the 2016 US presidential election with the 2013 crime rate.
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However, the Utah bill never addressed places of public accommodation — like flower shops and restrooms — which is where LGBT people report some of the most blatant discrimination.
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"Microsoft is engaging in anticompetitive behavior, but the case would never succeed because the courts have restricted antitrust laws to the most blatant of circumstances," Hanley said.
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While women's ice hockey is notionally free of body-checking, referees tend to allow all but the most blatant fouls when the Americans and Canadians face off.
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What we viewed on Saturday was some of the most blatant performances of discrimination against people for their pure difference that we've seen in years in America.
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Keith Ellison, expecting to win back the nation based upon both altruistic Leftist economic policy and empathetic social progressivism is the most blatant example of Democratic idealism.
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Instagram caught many longtime users by surprise earlier this month when it announced its new Stories feature, which is Facebook's most blatant attempt at copying Snapchat yet.
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"The proposed regulations focus only on the most blatant abuses in which the 'debt' is clearly an accounting gimmick or unsubstantiated," he wrote in comments to Treasury.
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He is a reasonable and — dare I say — decent man, yet he led a bank engaged in one of the most blatant financial scandals in recent memory.
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With all the focus on curbing racism and sexism in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, it sure feels like the most blatant discrimination could be against workers over 40.
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In an age of extensive legal election-rigging in the forms of gerrymandering and voter suppression, Election Year takes election rigging to its most blatant and violent form.
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" Cassidy took to the Senate floor last week with visual aids in tow to reconstruct what he deemed "the most blatant and consequential blown call in NFL history.
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These so-called king tides, which happen frequently, are the most blatant example of the interplay between rising seas and the alignment of the moon, sun and Earth.
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" The president says Schiff's statement was not just misleading, tweeting that the representative lied "in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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And the tweets considered in this study don't even include deleted tweets or ones from accounts Twitter suspended or disabled last year—likely the worst and most blatant examples.
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Doug Simpson, the founder and CEO, himself responded to my most blatant question of all, sent as a message to Navdy's Twitter account after previous notes got no reply.
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The government has stopped the most blatant forms of cronyism, such as handing out the right to import certain goods duty-free to those with friends in high places.
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Benedict's newly-published essay, blaming the surging sex-abuse crisis on the swinging sixties and "homosexual cliques" in seminaries, was his most blatant intervention since stepping down in 2013.
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Though Rohana's thumb thievery maybe one of the most blatant acts of artistic destruction perpetrated in pursuit of a viral self-portrait, it is by no means the first.
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The Supreme Court gave its approval on Tuesday to the most blatant act of religious discrimination committed by an American president in the modern era, ruling in Trump v.
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His efforts to limit immigration, roll back net neutrality and undo regulations that protect the environment are just the most blatant examples of his clashes with the tech industry.
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The most blatant appropriation of Sanders's policy vision has probably come from South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who pitches "Medicare for all who want it" — endorsing a public option.
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The biggest and most blatant injustice was the decision against light-middleweight Jones, who lost gold at the Seoul Games to home fighter Park Si-hun after dominating the final.
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At the beginning, the most blatant barriers fell — for example, rejecting employers' attempts to limit certain jobs only to women (flight attendant) or only men (switchman for a telephone company).
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The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies.
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" On Sunday, Mr. Trump said of Mr. Schiff in a Twitter post, "His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress...... His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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Such a wholesale obstruction of a congressional impeachment has never before occurred in our democracy, and it represents one of the most blatant efforts at a coverup in our long history.
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The Academy's most blatant oversight on this score proved to be "Queen and Slim," perhaps the most magisterial depiction of black love flowering against the backdrop of impending death ever made.
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Indeed, he's taken the alarming step of appointing the former head of one of the most blatant peddlers of untruth, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart, to be his White House chief strategist.
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The articles of impeachment drafted against Nixon were not narrowly focused on the most blatant and well-supported abuses of Watergate, but included the secret bombing of Cambodia and tax evasion.
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The incident was perhaps the most blatant and unavoidable example of the deep racial divisions and inequality that have become increasingly visible since the 2016 presidential campaign and election of President Trump.
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Pretty clearly, he never will — in fact, he's already in effect using political office to enrich himself, with some of the most blatant examples involving foreign governments steering business to Trump hotels.
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King tides, which frequently flood South Florida even when the sun shines, are the most blatant example of the interplay between rising seas and the alignment of the moon, sun and Earth.
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"Congress voting to gut Internet privacy was one of the most blatant displays of corruption in recent history," Fight for the Future co-founder Tiffiniy Cheng said in a statement on the project.
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While it's still not cool to get physical even with your most blatant haters, Princess Nokia isn't mincing words in her boldly inspiring in message to trailblazing artists and women of color everywhere.
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And it raises a follow-on: How have even the most blatant expressions of anti-Semitism become almost undetectable to editors who think it's part of their job to stand up to bigotry?
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Here are some of the most blatant instances where Trump and other White House officials clearly contradicted experts in an effort to convince the American public that the coronavirus wouldn't be that bad.
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Perhaps the most blatant example occurred in Week 11 when Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey bumped, grabbed and tugged at Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the end zone before dragging him to the turf.
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The decision to make Destiny 2's most blatant fan service into its first attempt at horror is a curious one, made more interesting by the way Shadowkeep changes how the game plays.
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Instead, the backlash came from the US—with USA Today dubbing Hernandez, the "World Cup's most blatant cheater"—and legions of outraged Australian fans who bombarded the French player's social media accounts with abuse.
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The MMA world so rarely gets to see a bout pitting "champion versus champion" that the absence of McGregor's featherweight title was one of the most blatant details of yesterday's UFC 197 press conference.
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With the regular season in full swing, having the game officials hold on to their penalty flags after the most blatant, dangerous blows to the head is hardly the suitable, forward-thinking next step.
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" It includes some of the most blatant examples of racism, including a 1916 story about Australia that included the photo caption: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.
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The most blatant link between the two is that each contains a similarly thrilling, moving scene, in which the main character stands up to give a speech that starts out embarrassing and eventually becomes empowering.
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At a time when our country is facing some of its most blatant prejudice to date, I can't express how much of a difference it makes to have people who love you on your side.
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" In media interviews, Ingham called Bell Pottinger's work for Oakbay "the most blatant instance of unethical P.R. practice I've ever seen," and declared that the firm had "set back South Africa by possibly ten years.
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The Washington Post's Dana Milbank slammed Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, insisting that the wonder-pollster, who built his reputation on the Barack Obama presidential wins, had hedged his numbers in the most blatant fashion.
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His most blatant mistake came during the interview with Trump, when he declined to push back at the candidate's claim that he had always been against the Iraq war, an assertion that has been thoroughly debunked.
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President Donald Trump won't commit to exempting his business from emergency coronavirus stimulus legislation that Congress is negotiating — an episode that would represent one of the most blatant instances of presidential self-dealing in American history.
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" Trump previously demanded Sunday that Schiff be "questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," and claimed that his "lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber.
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This might look like straight-up bribery, but the federal appeals court found that some of the most blatant official actions by Mr. Silver took place so long ago that they were beyond the statute of limitations.
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"I think it's the most blatant example most people have seen of how people with power and money, connections and influence, have changed how the system is supposed to work, " said Tricia Gerrodette, a local resident and activist.
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The eggs and the clock were the most blatant references to the original comics, at least until the final shot and... We knew it was coming as soon as the slow zoom start pushing in on the badge.
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In one of the most blatant and misleading attempts ever to scare American voters days before an election, President Trump is warning in speeches, tweets, interviews and ads that scary, deadly migrants are about to storm our southern border.
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It's also the most blatant example of Instagram adding a feature expressly for Facebook's benefit in a long time; from a user-facing perspective, Instagram has done an admirable job keeping a line of separation with its parent company.
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It's something that websites are aware of and YouTube doesn't know how to fix it, and it's like the most blatant issue that it's facing a lot of creators is they just put in however many tags they want.
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"Guys, I don't complain much," said Rivers to the media about one year ago at this time, which still stands as perhaps the most blatant lie in Los Angeles since James Cameron promised to bring "Avatar" in on budget.
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For example, in Pennsylvania this year, the state Supreme Court threw out one of the most blatant partisan gerrymanders in the country on these grounds, and instituted a new map that hugely improved Democrats' chances to pick up House seats there.
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"In half an hour, I was subjected to the most blatant cruelty another human being had ever inflicted on me," said Corbitt, who has changed her gender identity on her U.S. passport, Social Security card and North Dakota driver's license.
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The email may have been the most blatant sign yet of how Trump and his allies are building a political campaign to tarnish special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, apparently designed to discredit any eventual findings of wrongdoing by the President.
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Senior officials linked to some of the most blatant cases of graft, including those accused in the near-meltdown of the Kabul Bank after $900 million in fraudulent "buddy" loans, were treated with leniency, or their convictions have been effectively forgotten.
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And while it was perhaps the most blatant attempt by the Trump administration to wade into a foreign contest, it was not the only time the President or his team has weighed in on the domestic politics of other countries.
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The most blatant example of accommodationism came in 1913 when organizers of a huge suffragist parade in Washington demanded that black participants march in an all-black assembly at the back of the parade instead of with their state delegations.
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Perhaps Bruguera's most blatant attempt to disrupt the police structures of the Cuban regime occurred in 2014 at the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, where she installed a podium and an open microphone to promote a discussion about the future of Cuba.
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So really the concept apps were the most blatant part of DeepMind's sales pitch today — using the familiarity and popularity of smartphone apps to try to win over the UK public to an alternative vision for the future of NHS healthcare delivery.
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Thousands of Reddit users were outraged this week to see that Subreddit of the Day (SROTD) — a popular subreddit with more than 125,000 subscribers that promotes a different subreddit each day — had highlighted one of the site's most blatant white supremacist forums.
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In all of our collective years of practice, this is the most blatant act of retaliation we have ever encountered, and it represents the antithesis of all of the progress society has made on issues of discrimination and harassment in the past number of years.
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The decision by the justices not to intervene in even the most blatant partisan gerrymanders was a letdown to many liberals in this evenly divided purple state, where substantive policy battles often feel overshadowed by knife-fighting over the rules that govern democracy itself.
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In its most blatant middle finger to the establishment, MSCHF created a shell restaurant called "The Blue Donkey", where employees who pay for meals using company money or corporate perks could pretend to order "food" using an online delivery app, like Grubhub or Seamless.
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It was the most blatant instance yet of the Trump family's profiting from its political power—in this case, by shifting from its long-standing focus on luxury markets in order to make money from the very demographic that put Trump in the White House.
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The impetus for the 2015 accord was one of the most blatant espionage operations ever conducted by the Chinese government: the removal, over a period of more than a year, of 22 million security-clearance files on American officials, military personnel, contractors and American intelligence officers.
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While prosecutors still have effective tools to combat corruption, they are much more likely to obtain convictions in the "most blatant and egregious" cases, said Randall D. Eliason, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at George Washington University Law School and often writes about corruption.
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The Chinese government has increasingly wanted to bring Hong Kong into its orbit, though some of its most blatant attempts — including a 2014 electoral reform package that set off the Umbrella Movement and the extradition bill that ignited these current protests — have been largely rejected by Hong Kong.
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Though passions and emotions run high in the debate over Catalonia, for me, it's just a political issue: I just don't want to live in a place where those who rule violate the laws in the most blatant way, in the name of democracy and a supposedly oppressed homeland.
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This certainly isn't the biggest or most blatant example of hypocrisy in Hillary Clinton's history, but it is one of the more illuminating ones, given how much she has attempted to align herself with Women's March activists and targeted women voters for their own choices when she ran unsuccessfully for president.
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"The idea isn't just to solve food waste itself, but to use food waste as the most blatant illustration of the fact that the global food system is built on a fundamental paradox — that we need to double food production by 2050 to feed the nine billion," Mr. Stuart said.
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The Dolphins appear to be going through an open revolt right now, with the team's 59-10 thwacking at the hands of the Ravens last week prompting reports that multiple players had asked to be traded to avoid what appears to be the most blatant tank job the league has ever seen.
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Despite reps for the big four pro leagues currently barraging state legislatures with reasons why they deserve their cut of the pie—the most compelling legal argument is that they own the intellectual property—the most blatant cash-grab is their bid for an "integrity fee" so they, you know, keep things on the ol' up-and-up.
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The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies The episode has taken on significance as Donald McGahn, the White House counsel, left his post and Mr. Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew Whitaker, as his acting attorney general.
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Tip theft might be one of the ugliest and most blatant potential cases of gig worker exploitation, but the reality is that even when gig economy workers get their tips in full, many of them are being paid far below what we would consider a decent minimum wage — by some estimates less than $10 an hour after expenses — for jobs that sell workers on a promise of making much more.
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If you peruse the Starbucks website, you'll find several pieces of merchandise that prove otherwise, including Christmas ornaments, an advent calendar, and "Christmas blend" coffee: There's also a Starbucks "Christmas" gift card: But Feuerstein's most blatant untruth, and the reason for all the current furor about the 2015 red cup, is the implication that Starbucks at one time printed the word "Christmas" on its holiday cups and is now being stifled or stifling itself from doing so.
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But the most blatant and strange Moffat moment comes with this episode's big reveal: Just as Sherlock's very first episode revealed John to have a sister, now this season's penultimate episode reveals Sherlock to have had a sister who's been borrowing Sherlock's master-of-disguise shtick to hide herself in plain sight — first as "E," the woman with whom John had his brief affair, then as "Faith," Smith's troubled daughter, and finally as John's vaguely Germanic therapist.
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To limit the impeachment process to the most blatant presidential misdeed yet discovered would leave in the dust — unresolved for history, setting dangerous precedents — the possibility of holding accountable a president who routinely enriches himself at the expense of the taxpayers and flouts the Constitution's emoluments clause, lies so persistently that we're far from the democratic concept of transparent government, usurps the role of Congress by unilaterally holding up funds or using them for other purposes than it has approved, bullies private businesses by threatening a tax increase or a significant raise in postal rates (as Mr. Trump did to Amazon, whose owner also owns The Washington Post), tells intelligence alumni who openly criticize him that he'll suspend their security clearances and fights the law that allows Congress to obtain his tax returns.
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