Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burying the Dead. In fact, it turned out to be the occasion for some of the most blatant attacks against the Catholic community in the four-year history of the troubles. Protestant gunmen fired indiscriminately on a funeral procession of several hundred Catholics who were following the coffins of three suspected members of the I.R.A. who had been killed a few days earlier by British troops. The shots wounded a middle-aged man and an eleven-year-old boy. "They won't even let us bury our dead," cried a Catholic woman...
...despite the issues of breach of trust and despite the detailed analysis of potential environmental disasters, the committee concludes that Harvard should take no active steps to prevent Con Ed from buying its land. The contradiction is as incredible as it is blatant...
British authorities in Belfast say that the assassinations fall basically into two categories: those motivated by blatant sectarianism-extremist Protestants intent on murdering any available Catholic, and vice versa-and those motivated by revenge against suspected informers. In addition, say Belfast police, some victims have merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of last year's 121 victims, 81 were Catholics, as were Jack Mooney and the engaged couple of Donegal (the first such victims in the Republic of Ireland). But each side has been guilty of particularly gruesome murders, which have overtones of both wartime...
...safer profits in return for allowing themselves to be used as instruments of restraint against the networks, in accordance with some vague principle of balance, presumably to be defined by the Administration. In theory, no one could be against "fairness" or "responsibility." In fact, it looked like a blatant attempt to use the Government's licensing power to enforce certain political views or standards...
...Expressions of opinion, however inaccurate or misleading, are protected. Still, it is not irrelevant in the present instance that these opinions are also based on error, indeed, on such an array of misinformation as would (or should) embarrass the most hardened exponent of advocacy journalism. To choose just three blatant examples...