In early March the Governor of Tula, only 100 miles from Moscow, issued the most blatant challenge yet to Mr. Yeltsin.

She peeped at him from beneath her brows, her gaze a blatant challenge.

It was a blatant challenge to the gods.

He didn't need his mother's quick glance to know he'd better not react to that blatant challenge.

The attack on Gorazde was, and is, an especially blatant challenge to the credibility of NATO and the United Nations.

He was one of the most professional people in the entire Russian banking sector," calling his assassination a "blatant challenge to the entire Russian government system.

Nor were her jokes quite the blatant challenge to morality the censors thought they were.

So let me offer a blatant, grandstanding challenge to the five largest American papers and The Associated Press.

Arian slammed both palms on the table in blatant challenge.