Some of the most egregious violations of liberty involve not the intent to punish but rather the paternalistic intent to help.
The result has been sometimes an egregious overestimate of abatement costs' (their emphasis).
The bypassing of history is especially egregious as there are so many possibilities nowadays for fertile collaboration among historians and anthropologists.
One of the most egregious-but by no means unique-examples is the duplication of extensive block quotations and commentary on pages 107-9 and 235-36.
Thus, theft by public officials is probably the most egregious, and in this sense the most 'classic', instance of government corruption.
While public-sector size in general may not be associated with corruption, egregious forms of state intervention are another matter.
It is an egregious mistake, however, to think that it is such "openness" that accounts for dominance.
Both of these were egregious misrepresentations of what had happened and both were political nightmares.