Sentences with phrase «as blatant»

There are several forms of sexual harassment, and they aren't always as blatant as touching a person inappropriately.

These errors may not be as obvious as blatant lies or grammatical mistakes.

Just take the Xiaomi Mi Pad tablet family, inaugurated more than three years ago as a blatant iPad mini rip - off.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency industry trade group representatives in India consider the latest actions by banks as blatant «overreach,» without any instruction from regulators, saying: «Without any clear mandate either from the RBI or other regulators, asking us to close down our (exchange) accounts while refusing to give in writing what the reason is just disruptive to our business.»

As a matter of fact, the Galaxy Alpha is as blatant an iPhone 5 ripoff as Huawei's sexy Ascend P7, but there's a clear difference between Huawei and Samsung: Huawei hasn't been sued repeatedly by Apple over the past few years over allegations of design and patent theft.

Of course, Krugman's analysis wasn't as blatant or specific as that of Boston's University's Mark T. Williams, who infamously predicted a collapse of the bitcoin price to under $ 10 by the middle of 2014.

Neglect, while perhaps not as blatant, occurs when a patient's vital needs, including receiving proper nutrition and hydration, are ignored by the employees who are supposed to be providing essential care.

There is blatant pal review enumerated therein, as well as blatant obstructionism.

But Hoegh - Guldberg's persistent efforts to discredit the adaptive benefits of symbiont shifting and shuffling, serve as blatant example of why Feynman also argued «Science is the belief in the Ignorance of Experts.

It probably won't be as blatant as mind control through computerized TV commercials, the theme of his upcoming movie, Looker; it is likelier to be a more subtle intrusion, with more market share at stake.

The fact that he left out Briffa's tree ring data just because he doesn't like Briffa's tree ring data is, in itself, as blatant a case of cherry picking as you can get.

(Ie., a blatant cherry - pick — though not as blatant, I would think, as 1998 - 2005 would have been.)

The next crew in the White House might not be as blatant as the current masters of evil, but we shouldn't think that the struggle to control carbon emissions will be easily won by changing presidents.

Is this gold thing becoming as blatant a gimmick as the Tanooki tails were in Super Mario 3D Land?

A third collection would've just been seen as blatant rehashing.

So long as the effect is subtle and not as blatant as «flip a switch, now it's EASY instead of NORMAL or HARD!»

To top it off, Treyarch just released a new map and mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which most took as a blatant tease Black Ops 4 was on the way.

I'm actually not that shocked... but I'm really disappointed about all that «10 YEAR support» promise... being revealed as A BLATANT LIE.

EDIT: «sony delivers badass AAA ONLY on PLAYSTATION titles» Nope, no fanboy in that statement... jeez... That said, what about my comment was as blatant as that fanboyism above?

Because there are different degrees of insecurity, her behavior may be as subtle as peeking out from under a bed or as blatant as asking for strokes and pets.

High stakes accountability and incentive system failures, as well as blatant fraud, at Dun and Bradstreet, Qwest, the Heinz Company, and Sears auto repair shops, illustrate that such schemes inevitably bring unintended consequences.

The 2017 session will go down in history as a blatant effort to fully fund school privatization while turning a cold shoulder on Florida's three million public school children.

«We have actually deterred districts from sharing [early warning] risk levels with parents and students just as a blatant «here's your risk level» conversation,» says Curtin.

The NCES version of this yearbook isn't quite as blatant.

Hopefully not, and with records like this documentary, it will help ensure that something as blatant does not happen again.

And because the movie depicts rape, sexual mutilation, and murder, and especially because the third act involves a dead girl's father taking revenge on her behalf, à la Bergman's The Virgin Spring, Night Train Murders is often regarded as a blatant knock - off of The Last House on the Left.

Love Actually may not be quite as stuffed a turkey as more recent holiday disasters like New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day — here's a hint: if you want a quality bit of entertainment, you'd do well to stay away from films named after a holiday — nor is it quite as blatant in its commercialization of those holidays.

The zombie series began as a blatant homage to Dawn of the Dead, and that afforded it a certain camp value that made mowing down countless undead feel right at home.

This monster's serene satisfaction would be unbearable if Iannucci didn't treat him, Khrushchev and the rest as blatant ass - kissers, so transparent in their aims that they'll literally race each other, on foot or in cars, to be the first to enter the orbit of those whose favor they seek.

Its ties aren't as blatant to the original as say The Phantom Menace is to Star Wars or The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to The Lord of the Rings.

The racist remarks that the students face here aren't as blatant as those that the students in Remember the Titans faced but they contain the same sense of ugly righteousness.

Answer: because Mendes decided to shoot it cleverly (or as a blatant rip - off of Christopher Walken's «gold watch» monologue in Pulp Fiction, if you prefer), with Rockwell addressing the camera directly — and as our point - of - view was not yet tethered to an identity, the tenor of Rockwell's monologue would've been lost on the viewer.

Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible manner in which Ferguson, displaying a light smile and a brisk way with a knife, steals the show.

Though it hardly seems possible, The Hangover: Part II actually fares worse than its consistently underwhelming predecessor - as the film, for the most part, comes off as a blatant retread that brings virtually nothing new to the table.

More success, more sophistication, a great sense of self - the benefits of dating an older man are as blatant as they are numerous.

Although both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown exerted influence behind the scenes to support favoured candidates, they were never as blatant as Jeremy Corbyn appears to be in Gorton.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as blatant falsehood a claim by Radio Show Host Adakabre Frimpong Manso, that the party's Flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo, once threatened his life and abused him because he was unhappy with his work on radio.

National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Samson Ayokunle, has described allegations of financial impropriety against his leadership as a blatant lie concocted by...

Many Muslims are genuinely incensed by the «Innocence of Muslims»: they see it as blatant attack on their beloved Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and as part of a series of «attacks» and hatred for their religious sanctity they see as coming from the US.

In what NYPD cops are seeing as a blatant dig at Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo is putting his own teams of MTA and State Police front and center at Saturday night's grand - opening party for the new Second Avenue Subway.

Barring unforeseen circumstances or a surprise re-election defeat, Ms. James is set to hold the post for eight years, which means she will have more time to burnish her reputation and move away from simply wielding the office as a blatant campaign tool — something Mr. de Blasio was accused of doing.

In what NYPD cops saw as a blatant dig at de Blasio, Cuomo put his own teams of MTA and State Police front and center at the big subway party.

This is about as blatant — and shameless — as patronage hiring gets.

Saving the highest earners thousands while the average voter endures biting austerity is as blatant a corroboration of that suspicion as Osborne could provide.

Flanagan is not as blatant as Skelos — and only wanted to use state funds to take care of certain Senators for clearly political reasons — but he is only slightly less corrupt than his mentor Dirty Deano.

PCRM was founded and is funded by PETA as a blatant front group.

Both were as blatant as blatant can be.

Not quite as blatant as Koscielny's winner at Burnley, but nonetheless, handball.

The rule change is a direct response to Harbaugh's move last spring, which coaches and administrators at other schools saw as a blatant recruiting ploy.

The third was as blatant and would have led to second yellow as well as a spot kick, but Atkinson waved all three away with an air of arrogance, leaving Wenger fuming on the sideline.