31.   Web site developers had been outraged by what they saw as a blatant attempt by the software company to hijack Internet traffic.

32.   India denounced this as a blatant attempt to grab the market.

33.   Some said it was a blatant attempt to gather a database of potential investors in MMM, the investment fund run by her husband Sergei Mavrodi.

34.   Telephones went unanswered for five minutes at newspapers Monday as journalists protested the anniversary of a law condemned as a blatant attempt to muzzle the Egyptian press.

35.   That move has been decried by opposition legislators as a blatant attempt to keep the road open for a possible re-election bid.

36.   Some said it was a blatant attempt to gather a database of potential investors in MMM, the notorious investment fund run by her husband Sergei Mavrodi.

37.   The decision was the latest twist in a controversial election law seen as a blatant attempt to eliminate strong opponents to President Henri Konan Bedie.

38.   The law, seen as a blatant attempt by Bedie to keep formidable opponents out of politics, is what prompted opposition parties to boycott the presidential vote.

39.   The law was seen as a blatant attempt by the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy to prevent former dictator Kenneth Kaunda, whose parents were from Malawi.

40.   The planned referendum has also alarmed international labor groups, which see it as blatant attempt to interfere in the private affairs of unions.