Mr. Weinstein may be our most flagrant monster at the moment.
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One of the most flagrant techniques is tinkering with voter ID laws.
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For some, the most flagrant symbol of defiance came from showing one's face.
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Koch Industries, she reports, has been perhaps the most flagrant and willful polluter and scofflaw.
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But Hubbard's alleged crime is just the most flagrant example of how Alabama lawmakers abuse Medicaid.
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When discussing corruption in the Trump era, it's easy to focus on the most flagrant examples.
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Those who do manage to run afoul of this law are usually the most flagrant offenders.
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Dr. Rodchenkov said the cheating was most flagrant at the last Winter Games, in 20153 in Sochi, Russia.
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In fact, that track is one of the most flagrant examples of the sexual spectrum that Prince ever traversed.
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WWE might have been the most flagrant misuser of #TeamUSA recently, according to metrics from social media intelligence firm Brandwatch.
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Texas, one of the most flagrant examples in recent memory of a naked political dispute masquerading as a legal one.
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Volkswagen was the most flagrant cheater, but many other diesel car models used perfectly legal methods to skirt past pollution testing.
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That's a dedicated team that's working on ensuring that we're proactively working on removing the most flagrant violations of our policies.
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The most flagrant example came early this year, when Trump himself starting openly attacking a federal judge overseeing a Trump University case.
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Perhaps the most flagrant example came in the spring of 1996, a few months after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Luckily, for me and for Freddie, the stupefying naïveté of the '19703s provided cover for even the most flagrant acts of effeminacy.
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"To this day, the Grand Staircase proclamation remains among the most flagrant abuses of presidential power I have ever seen," he responded.
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It comes as no surprise that the greatest champions of purity and perfection among us are revealed as the most flagrant hypocrites.
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Directed by Horrible Bosses' Seth Gordon, Baywatch isn't the most flagrant offender in our current TV-to-movie scourge, but it's not good.
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He resigned because he lost all legitimacy with the Bolivian people after one of the most flagrant electoral fraud in the country's history.
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The most flagrant Instagram bait, a hanging heart-shaped seat with a metal "VNYL" nameplate strung above it, might be spinning through your feed.
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"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as 'the most flagrant of all the passions,'" Tuchman wrote.
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That's followed by an even worse ending featuring the most flagrant deus ex machina imaginable: the literal hand of God descending to save the day.
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It is ironic that the most flagrant methane cloud observable comes from the four corners area of the United States, precisely where the Hopi live.
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But when it comes to Trump's most flagrant break with Republican orthodoxy — his belief that the government should guarantee health care — his voters just aren't there.
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The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) is the most flagrant example of Federal government overreach in the history of the United States.
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Ireland has legalized divorce, homosexual acts and abortion, and it is scarred by church-sponsored oppression and some of the most flagrant cases of priestly sex abuse.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BARCELONA, Spain — Art and soft power have always been uneasy bedfellows, and the latest situation in Catalonia is perhaps the most flagrant example.
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The ensuing tour found him rapping while wearing diamond-encrusted masks atop a mountain—simultaneously killing the artist and drawing attention to himself in the most flagrant way possible.
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A spirit of caution, wedded to environmental impact assessments with more teeth, better coordinated between the federal and state levels, would help to avert the most flagrant environmental risks.
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His video is among the most flagrant examples of an emerging trend of partisans repurposing old statements from lawmakers — or simply fabricating quotes — to place blame for the shooting.
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Last week, when a group of civil servants and environmentalists took a tour of West Delhi, they found construction sites managed by government agencies among the most flagrant polluters.
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But the move to recognize one of the most flagrant violators of the prohibition on chemical weapons in this way has been viewed as a travesty by many members.
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Mr. Modi has done much to reduce some of the most flagrant forms of corruption, but at the price of a disturbing increase in nationalism and a Trumpian authoritarian streak.
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Here is a work that combines in one glitzy package the two most flagrant formulas of Xerox creativity on Broadway: theater inspired by films and musicals with back-catalog scores.
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The most flagrant situation is in prescription drugs, in which complex behind-the-scenes rebates totaling $179B from companies to pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) prevent any price consideration by patients.
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"El Chapo Guzman is the most flagrant, the most brutal, and the starkest face of the corruption in Mexico," said Anabel Hernandez, author of 'Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers'.
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But the most important thing will be to get Mueller on record, in plain view of the American public and Congress, about the most flagrant and provable crimes committed by the President.
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These are the most flagrant examples of the disconcerting discovery made by a small art museum in the South of France: More than half of the works in its collection were fakes.
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Since arriving as a one-note sadist in Season 3, this striving, legitimized former bastard has expanded to both embody the story's dynastic obsession and inflict some of its most flagrant abuses.
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By far the most flagrant part of the plan is that it ends any possibility for an independent sovereign Palestinian state, instead dividing the territories into ghettos and Bantustans, besieged, suffocated and isolated.
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In one of the Donald Trump administration's most flagrant acts of evil to date, a narrowed legal definition of gender that is currently under consideration could jeopardize the rights of 1.4 million transgender Americans.
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The Volkswagen scandal is "one of the most flagrant violations of environmental and consumer laws," Sally Q. Yates, deputy attorney general of the United States, said at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
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The most flagrant demonstration of Mr Erdogan's Janus-faced foreign policy was the announcement in December that Turkey has signed an agreement to purchase two batteries of advanced S-400 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
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Mr. McConnell, who has spent much of his public life pressing against the most flagrant bigotry in politics, is in a particularly tough spot by not fully dismissing Mr. Trump's candidacy over the David Duke episode.
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Mercedes-Benzes and Porsches in every size and color, yellow Lamborghinis and men and women decked out in high-end European fashion labels (not necessarily fakes) are only the most flagrant signs of a heady consumerism.
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The country's most flagrant transgressor of the code of plausible disclaimability is Vigdis Hjorth, whose prickly, persuasive novel " Will and Testament " came out in Norway in 2016, and has just been published in English, by Verso.
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"Donald Trump's words degraded and insulted women in the most flagrant possible way, and yet Hillary Clinton's policy is to allow the murder of a half a million little tiny women every year," Franks told CNN last year.
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The idea of reducing Iranian malign activity in the region without confronting the most flagrant example of that activity — Iranian military, financial, diplomatic and political support for the mass murdering, chemical weapons using, war criminal Assad — is absurd.
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" Then came this: "And in the most flagrant demonstration of Putin's disdain and disrespect for our nation, Russia deliberately interfered in our recent election with cyberattacks and a disinformation campaign designed to weaken America and discredit Western values.
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He takes to the Senate floor to bemoan the death of bipartisanship and the failure of his beloved institutions, but sanctions a legislative process that willfully violated regular order at every possible turn and in the most flagrant way possible.
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Together with his brain trust of luminaries and strategists, the reformist president Mohammad Khatami held the country's first direct elections for local government in 1999, and made the security establishment accountable for some of its most flagrant human rights abuses.
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Or to turn the question around, how might it be possible to recognise the most flagrant cases of bias in the behaviour of reporters and experts, but nevertheless to accept that what they say is often a reasonable depiction of the world?
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Richard Nixon and Watergate may be the most obvious and most flagrant example, but Hennessey and Wittes offer more, including George Washington making secret land purchases, Ulysses Grant firing a special prosecutor and John F. Kennedy appointing his brother Bobby as attorney general.
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She is also an influential fashion legend (you may recall that she invented leopard print) and it appears that she has left her mark on one of the musicians who indulges in the most flagrant displays of print and texture-mixing in our midst.
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When pressed on one of the most flagrant examples of obstruction -- Trump's instruction to then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to have Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein fire Mueller -- Barr resorted to a perplexing claim that Trump merely wanted McGahn to discuss Mueller's conflict of interests.
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" Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, was scathing in his criticism: "By far the most flagrant part of the plan is that it ends any possibility for an independent sovereign Palestinian state, instead dividing the territories into ghettos and Bantustans, besieged, suffocated and isolated.
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" When Boot did the same, Carlson responded that Boot had been so "consistently wrong in the most flagrant and flamboyant way for over a decade" in his support for wars in the Middle East that "maybe you should choose another profession, selling insurance, house painting, something you're good at.
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Perhaps the most flagrant offense against low-income women is the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, which prohibits Medicaid from being used to pay for abortion services, making it prohibitively difficult for the 6.5 million American women who obtain health care through Medicaid to get a safe and legal abortion.
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Thus far, the House has focused on the primary witnesses to Trump's obstructive acts, including Mueller himself, plus McGahn and Hicks, both of whom -- according to the Mueller report -- directly witnessed some of Trump's most flagrant conduct (including Trump's effort to have McGahn fire Mueller and then to have McGahn lie about the effort).
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One correspondent from AFP said that a fan may have even smuggled a flare by way of a certain flare-shaped hole: Hungary's use of flares was by no definition the most flagrant, as Croatian fans, who have a history of causing problems, halted the match against Czech Republic with a whole corner of a field covered in flame and smoke.
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His most flagrant throws were likened to that of a baseball pitcher."Baseball As She Is Played". The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney). 17 December 1888. p. 3.
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Counterfeiting was high treason, punishable by the felon being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despite this, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult, however, Newton proved equal to the task.
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In other cases, selective enforcement may be inevitable. For example, it may be impractical for police officers to issue traffic tickets to every driver they observe exceeding the speed limit, so they may have no choice but to limit action to the most flagrant examples of reckless driving.
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As was normal at that time, no consideration appears to have been given to the fact that Dinham was the mother of two young children. Francis Davies, who the judge said had led a long career of the most flagrant crime, was sentenced to 20 years for the burglary.
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Gulik and Eubel, p. 98. Jean de Lorraine was appointed on nomination by the King. He was a personal friend, companion, and advisor of King Francis I of France. Jean de Lorraine was the richest prelate in the reign of Francis I, as well as the most flagrant pluralist.
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The Qatari–Bahraini War also known as the Qatari War of Independence was an armed conflict that took place between 1867 and 1868 in the Persian Gulf. The conflict pitted Bahrain and Abu Dhabi against the people of Qatar. The conflict was the most flagrant violation of the 1835 maritime truce, requiring British intervention.Jill, Crystal.
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Despite counterfeiting being considered high treason, punishable by hanging, drawing and quartering, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult. Undaunted, Newton conducted more than 100 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers, and suspects between June 1698 and Christmas 1699. He himself gathered much of the evidence he needed to successfully prosecute 28 coiners.
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In 1885 he started what would become the Chicago Great Western Railway, which linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. Clearing Yard in Chicago was founded by him in 1889. Stickney was a maverick among railroad executives of the time. He favored some regulation by the federal government and was opposed to the most flagrant abuses of the railroads.
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The most flagrant episode was probably the creation and ratification of a new state constitution in 1879. Thanks to vigorous lobbying by the anti- Chinese Workingmen's Party, led by Denis Kearney (an immigrant from Ireland), Article XIX, section 4 forbade corporations from hiring Chinese coolies, and empowered all California cities and counties to completely expel Chinese persons or to limit where they could reside. It was repealed in 1952.
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To publicize the film, Monroe wore a black cotton polka-dot swimsuit. It went on auction at Christie's in London in 1991 and sold for $22,400 to collector David Gainsborough Roberts. Despite boasting a lavish production, Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business eventually became both a critical and box office failure. Ed Sullivan described Monroe's performance of the song "Heat Wave" as "one of the most flagrant violations of good taste" he had witnessed.
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Some returned to China after the Central Pacific was built. Those who stayed mostly moved to the Chinatowns in San Francisco and other cities, where they were relatively safe from violent attacks they suffered elsewhere. From 1850 through 1900, anti-Chinese nativist sentiment resulted in the passage of innumerable laws, many of which remained in effect well into the middle of the 20th century. The most flagrant episode was probably the creation and ratification of a new state constitution in 1879.
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Drug-related corruption reportedly began to take a firm hold within Bolivia's military and security services under General Banzer's rule (1971–78). The García Meza regime (1980–81), however, was one of Bolivia's most flagrant examples of narcotics corruption. García Meza's so- called cocaine coup was itself generally believed to have been financed by the cocaine "mafia," which bribed certain military officers. García Meza reportedly ruled with an "inner cabinet" of leading civilians and military officers involved in the cocaine trade.
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Drug- related corruption reportedly began to take a firm hold within Bolivia's military and security services under General Banzer's rule (1971–78). The García Meza regime (1980–81), however, was one of Bolivia's most flagrant examples of narcotics corruption. García Meza's so-called cocaine coup was itself generally believed to have been financed by the cocaine "mafia," which bribed certain military officers. García Meza reportedly ruled with an "inner cabinet" of leading civilians and military officers involved in the cocaine trade.
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The 1922 murder of Alberta Provincial Police constable Steve Lawson by bootleggers Emil Picariello and Florence Lassandro, for which they were hanged, helped turn public opinion against it. A referendum held on the issue found most voters willing to replace prohibition with government-owned liquor stores and rigidly-regulated beer parlours. And the Act was repealed. The Lord's Day Act, which prohibited most commerce on Sundays, was also Brownlee's responsibility, though he had little enthusiasm for it and prosecuted only the most flagrant violations.
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Commentators complained that the arguments were "one of the most flagrant examples in recent memory of a naked political dispute masquerading as a legal one". On June 23, 2016, the Supreme Court announced it had deadlocked 4–4 in a decision that read, in its entirety, "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.". The ruling set no precedent and simply left in place the lower court's preliminary injunction blocking the program. The case may reach the Supreme Court again after Judge Hanen has held a trial.
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He was a leading critic of the Earl of Elgin's removal of the Elgin Marbles from Athens, commenting that "The Honourable Lord has taken advantage of the most unjustifiable means and has committed the most flagrant pillages. It was, it seems, fatal that a representative of our country loots those objects that the Turks and other barbarians had considered sacred". He spoke for the last time in the House of Commons on 25 June 1832, during the debate in committee on the Parliamentary Reform Bill for Ireland. On 11 October 1834 he was appointed Comptroller General of the Exchequer, a new office.
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No Peter the Great. Vladimir Putin is in the Andropov > mold, by Ion Mihai Pacepa, National Review, 20 September 2004. Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a reformer, especially in comparison with the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev. Andropov, "a throwback to a tradition of Leninist asceticism", was appalled by the corruption during Brezhnev's regime, and ordered investigations and arrests of the most flagrant abusers.
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Succession documents drawn up by the kadi, an official in Ottoman Empire, are sufficient proof that the property actually passed into the hands of the women. The kadi records of seventeenth-century Bursa contain a large number of documents which, in effect, describe legal disputes involving women over estates and inheritances and they show that in many cases women did actually inherit the property. Women in the Ottoman Empire owned agricultural land - the one type of property which expressed more than anything the integrity of the traditional Muslim family. The divergence between the law and practice in disputes involving agricultural property has been viewed as the most flagrant.
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225 The Boston Globe called it "Bush league in Kyiv" in an editorial, criticising Bush for having "mired him[self] rather too deeply for comfort on one side of an internal national debate". The newspaper felt that Bush had been injudicious in his language, particularly using phrases such as "suicidal nationalism," "ethnic hatred" and "local despotism" that it felt "went too far". On August 29, 1991, William Safire used his New York Times column to label it the "Chicken Kiev" speech. On February 8, 1992, The Economist said the speech was "the most flagrant example" of other nations failing to recognize the inevitability of Ukraine becoming an independent state.
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Sixtus consented under political pressure from Ferdinand of Aragon, who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of Sicily. Nevertheless, Sixtus IV quarrelled over protocol and prerogatives of jurisdiction; he was unhappy with the excesses of the Inquisition and condemned the most flagrant abuses in 1482. As a temporal prince who constructed stout fortresses in the Papal States, he encouraged the Venetians to attack Ferrara, which he wished to obtain for another nephew. Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, was allied with the Sforzas of Milan, the Medicis of Florence along with the King of Naples, normally a hereditary ally and champion of the papacy.
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The North Carr Lightship was launched in 1932 and created quite a stir in Edinburgh on account of her fog horn being tested while lying ¾ mile off Granton, Edinburgh in the Firth of Forth. As the fog horn had a range of approximately 10 miles, north Edinburgh could hear it loud and clear and the complaints were numerous - particularly as it was being sounded in clear weather. "Hundreds of city dwellers have had no sleep over three consecutive nights" and "The most flagrant individual breach of the peace is as nothing compared with the ceaseless boom and consequent suffering of the past three nights" were typical statements at the time.
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Gerdes claimed that contamination could happen from repeated use of the reagents used for Amplification but neglected to mention that all the reagents tested negative for contamination. Petrocelli wrote in Triumph of Justice that Gerdes lied when he said that Collin Yamauchi spilled Simpson's blood in the lab. Gerdes claimed that the results from the second Bronco collection were unreliable because the car had been burglarized but admitted the DNA matches are the same before and afterwards, disproving that claim. Rantala wrote that Gerdes most flagrant deception came when he implied that the evidence locker was in the PCR amplification room when he said that Yamauchi took the PCR extraction product back to "the same location".
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In Part A, Roberts described the Fifteenth Amendment's problematic history of enforcement that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, much of which consists of a "scheme of stringent remedies aimed at areas where voting discrimination has been most flagrant."South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U. S. 301, 315 (1966) These remedies were bolstered by §5, which suspended any change in state election procedure until the federal government certified that it neither "has the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color." To confine these remedies to areas of flagrant disenfranchisement, the Act applied them only to States that met certain explicit standards.
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Although the concept of Free Villages proved an immediate success, and many were set up, their establishment depended partly upon success in raising money in England through the Baptists, the Quaker Joseph Sturge, and other Christian or abolitionist circles. For freedmen who continued to work on the plantation estates, conditions could sometimes be harsh. Some escaped to live as best they could in historically Maroon communities in the hills. An English Baptist minister, arriving in Jamaica for the first time in 1841, described his surprise at the bleakness of the situation after emancipation: : Another circumstance, my dear sir, which has occasioned much surprise, is the frequency with which the most flagrant acts of oppression are practiced by the overseers.
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Even the Catholic states, after the beginning of the sixteenth century, advanced far in the way of frequent ruptures with the Church. When the Protestant states had acquired control and supervision over the newly reformed bodies even in their spiritual relations, the Catholic states, particularly France, strove to limit the jurisdiction of the Church as far as they could without casting aside the profession of the Catholic Faith. The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges was a serious aggression by France upon the acknowledged rights of the Church and of the Holy See. It is in France that we find the most flagrant series of encroachments upon Church jurisdiction, through pretence of appeals as from an abuse, gradually tending to the elimination of the ecclesiastical forum.
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Prashad offered his analysis of Mother Teresa's missionary work in Calcutta, designating her as a representative of the collective 'bourgeois guilt' of western nations.White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature, Samina Najmi, Rajini Srikanth, Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt - Chapter 4, pp 67, Published by SUNY Press, 2002, , He argued how people like Mother Teresa obscure the tragedies of capitalism. For instance, "During the night of December 2–3, 1984, methyl isocyanate left the environs of a Union Carbide factory and poisoned thousands of people". He contends that the Bhopal disaster by Union Carbide was but the most flagrant example of a transnational corporation's disregard for human life at the expense of its own profit.
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Princes and clergy alike understood that institutional abuses hindered the practices of the faithful, but they disagreed on the solution to the problem.Holborn, p. 205. The Protestants believed a reform of doctrine was needed (especially regarding the Church's teachings on justification, indulgences, Purgatory, and the Papacy) while those that remained Catholic wished to reform the morals of the clergy only, without sacrificing Catholic doctrine. Pope Paul III convened a council to examine the problem in 1537 and instituted several internal, institutional reforms intended to obviate some of the most flagrant prebendary abuses, simony, and nepotism; despite efforts by both the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the Roman Pontiff, unification of the two strands of belief foundered on different concepts of "Church" and the principle of justification.
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At a meeting of the board, the surveyor, Mr H. O. Smith said he was seeing the most flagrant cases of infringement. With the delays and difficulty in bringing cases before the magistrate, he had eight cases on hand, none of which had been adjudicated upon, and some of the buildings had been roofed in. Even if they were convicted the magistrates fine was optional and they generally inflicted a fine of half a crown. The builders laughed at the commissioners as they had gained about £100 by scamping on the work. By 1883 there were additional building bye Laws, “yet still ‘jerry- building’ practices continued, with old tins of fish and meat found substituted for hardcore in Sulhamstead Estate streets.” The development of the roads was much slower than the neighbouring estates.
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The most flagrant example of the lack of cooperation between the two companies, however, was with respect to the independent Caterham Railway, which ran in South Eastern territory, but joined the Brighton mainline at the LB&SCR; Godstone Road station (later renamed Caterham Junction). Both companies objected to the other operating the branch line, which resulted in a delay of a year between the completion of the work and the opening of the line in 1856. Their failure to agree on such matters as through ticketing quickly drove the independent company into bankruptcy. Even after the SER took over running of the branch in 1859, the squabbling and bloody mindedness continued to the great detriment of the passengers. Eventually the matters reached the leader columns of ‘’The Times’’ newspaper in 1862 before the companies would negotiate with one another.
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In June 2017, the American Chemical Society (ACS) filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging copyright and trademark infringement; it sought judgment US$4.8 million from Sci-Hub in damages, and Internet service provider blocking of the Sci-Hub website. On 6 November 2017, the ACS was granted a default judgment, and a permanent injunction was granted against all parties in active concert or participation with Sci-Hub that has notice of the injunction, "including any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries", to cease facilitating access to the service. On 23 November 2017, four Sci-Hub domains had been rendered inactive by the court order and its CloudFlare account was terminated. In 2018 and 2019, the White House Office of the US Trade Representative named Sci-Hub as one of the most flagrant "notorious market" sites in the world.
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Changes in Thai society wrought by modernization began to impose on the traditional and conservative Sangha as well - including calls for greater rolls for laypeople and younger monks in religious affairs, and organized efforts both in Thailand and abroad to re-create the lost Theravada bhikkhuni (nun-priest) ordination. Because of the convoluted governing structure of the Thai Sangha (which includes both ecclesiastic and civil officials) and the Patriarch's health problems, it is difficult to determine what, if any, role that Somdet Nyanasamvara has played in formulating a response to these challenges. Certainly, the course held by the Council of Elders has not strayed during his tenure; they continue to defrock those monks found guilty of the most flagrant offenses, and to strongly oppose any change in the official status of women in the Sangha. The Council (and, by implication, Somdet Nyanasamvara) have received criticism for not taking a more proactive role in reforming disciplinary standards and eliminating corruption.
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The second was purpose built in Dundee, reported to have sat so low in the water that her decks were always awash and the only way up to the light was up a rope ladder in the rigging - no mean feat at the best of times. She created quite a stir in Edinburgh on account of her fog horn being tested while lying at ¾ mile outside Granton in the Firth of Forth. As the fog horn had a range of approximately 10 miles, north Edinburgh could hear it loud and clear and the complaints to the office, newspapers and police were numerous - particularly as it was being sounded in clear weather. "Hundreds of city dwellers have had no sleep over three consecutive nights"; "The most flagrant individual breach of the peace is as nothing compared with the ceaseless boom and consequent suffering of the past three nights"; "Firth of Forth torment"; "An Edinburgh grievance which has left rankling memories in the selection of Granton for the fog horn test" were typical of statements made and written at the time .
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247 On Thursday 11 December 1941, American Chargé d'Affaires Leland B. Morris, the highest ranking American diplomat in Germany, was summoned to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's office where Ribbentrop read Morris the formal declaration; the meeting lasted from 2:18 to 2:21 pm.p. 247 The text was: > MR. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES: The Government of the United States having violated > in the most flagrant manner and in ever increasing measure all rules of > neutrality in favor of the adversaries of Germany and having continually > been guilty of the most severe provocations toward Germany ever since the > outbreak of the European war, provoked by the British declaration of war > against Germany on September 3, 1939, has finally resorted to open military > acts of aggression. On September 11, 1941, the President of the United > States publicly declared that he had ordered the American Navy and Air Force > to shoot on sight at any German war vessel. In his speech of October 27, > 1941, he once more expressly affirmed that this order was in force.
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