(a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
(a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) But in Vietnam many white soldiers flagrantly applauded his murder.
(3) Even if the bill were law and covered flagrant policy U-turns (it won't), the NUS strategy might not work.
(4) Save for eurobonds, there could be no more flagrant violation of the "no bail" clause of article 125.
(5) Parliament was asked to join an international coalition led by a US Democrat president, whose aim, a firm response to a flagrant breach of international law, was supported by most European nations and many Middle Eastern ones.
(6) It is about a flagrant disregard for the law by people arrogant enough to believe they can get away with it.
(7) Mitting upheld the ruling by the European court of human rights last year that Qatada would face a "flagrant denial of justice" if he were sent back to Jordan to face trial.
(8) The European court's decision in the el-Masri case is a clarion call for accountability for the flagrantly illegal CIA rendition program.
(9) Comments by Margot Wallström, the foreign minister, represented a “flagrant interference in internal affairs, which is not accepted in international conventions,” it added, according to an official statement carried by state news agency SPA.
(10) With the Spurs ahead by two with less than seven minutes on the clock, Parker uncharacteristically missed both free-throws awarded for a flagrant foul by Mario Chalmers, then Tim Duncan promptly squandered two more.
(11) The “flagrant attack was an attempt to undermine the efforts of the army as the only effective force capable with its allies … in fighting terrorism across its territory”, the statement said.
(12) This refers to isolated incidents only and does not excuse or protect those who flagrantly or repeatedly violate the College Alcohol Policy.
(13) The resolution condemned all Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory as a “flagrant violation” of international law that imperilled a future two-state peace.
(14) This is further evidence that the EU needs to stand firm on Hungary’s flagrant disregard for European and international law.” People seeking asylum cannot currently be detained in the so-called “transit zones” along Hungary’s border with Serbia for more than four weeks, after which they must be allowed inside the country.
(15) In a statement, the ministry said the journalist had waited five days before converting his initial entry visa into a multi-entry visa – "a flagrant violation".
(16) The flagrant abuse of human rights – extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, forced exile, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of journalists, political opponents and gay people – went on with impunity.
(17) That way we can free up the Court to concentrate on the worst, most flagrant human rights violations – and to challenge national courts when they clearly haven't followed the Convention.
(18) But a blend of opportunism on the right that flagrantly mischaracterises the issue, and spinelessness on the left that refuses to address it.
(19) Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
(20) This inappropriate use of statistics represents a flagrant disregard of the scientific method of problem solving.
(a.) Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
(a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(3) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(4) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(6) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(7) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(8) Analytically, the major products formed initially from pTFE at 700 degrees C under either condition (flame or cup furnace) are similar but they disappear rapidly in the presence of continuous heat.
(9) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(10) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
(11) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(12) This team flamed out early in the last two tournaments despite big expectations.
(13) Urine is separated by reversed-phase HPLC and metal-species are detected on-line by flame-AAS (Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu and Fe) or by ETAAS in fractions (Pb, Cd, Sn).
(14) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
(15) The propazine was extracted from the powder with chloroform, with dieldrin as an internal standard, and chromatographed on Carbowax 20M, using a flame ionization detector.
(16) Flame burns due to domestic accidents were the aetiological factors in the majority of patients; 84 (87.5 per cent) of those who died sustained flame burns, although flame burns were only responsible for 46.6 per cent of all burns cases admitted.
(17) While there are similarities between the morphology of the central terminals of cutaneous low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the rat and those previously described in the cat (for example, the longitudinally continuous arrangement of the mediolaterally restricted flame-shaped HFA arborizations and the discontinuous RA arborizations arising from a dorsally located axon), there are also some major differences: the large number of HFA arbors extending to lamina IIi and to lamina IV rather than being restricted to lamina III, the deeper location of the RA arbors (in laminae IV and V rather than lamina III),(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
(18) When Black regained consciousness, he made his way down the length of the plane and tried to free the pilot from his seat as flames began to engulf the fuselage.
(19) In some instances where direct coupling was impossible, owing to the physical properties of the effluent or eluent, conventional analyses of chromatographically separated iron species were performed by flame AAS.
(20) The ion content of heart tissue was measured with flame spectrometer after the decomposition of myocardium by Lumatom tissue solubizer.