1.   The ruling Kuomintang is desperately in need of reform, including rooting out blatant corruption and severing gangland ties.

2.   Other countries accept blatant corruption, gross mismanagement and periodic upheavals as a way of life.

3.   The result, in many areas, has been blatant corruption, outright banditry and danger.

4.   The trial, which was televised live and featured evidence of blatant corruption, raised political passions against Estrada.

5.   We scream into the wind, pound our chests in righteous indignation, go bonkers over blatant corruption.

6.   Blatant corruption is only a small part of the problem.

7.   China has waged a long campaign against sometimes blatant corruption by officials and Communist Party members, and has convicted and executed a string of those caught out.

8.   Many employees of indebted state industries are having to get by on reduced salaries, and blatant corruption by many communist party officials is also feeding discontent.