Rules are flouted and violated with immunity exposing the common man to potential peril. |
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If rules of behaviour are flouted, those responsible must answer for their actions. |
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Thus he flouted the social hierarchies of his time by eating and associating with outcasts. |
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In the large state-owned mines, safety regulations are flouted to meet production targets, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. |
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Laws to control the sale of fireworks are being flouted in the run up to Bonfire Night, a Manchester Evening News investigation has revealed. |
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Friends say that the no hard drugs rule is openly flouted, which is sad but not great a surprise. |
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People who are willing to shout, wave signs, march and sing for whichever cause is being flouted at the time. |
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This silly man is being abused, ridiculed and punished for having flouted his own moral principles, and then being idiotic enough to confess it. |
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But you have flouted common sense in matters of good accounting and book-keeping. |
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Similar regulations on the Continent are either being ignored or blatantly flouted, with no punishment being administered by the member state. |
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Obvious examples of where this principle is being flouted are Vehicle Registration Tax and the duty on wine. |
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Unfortunately, these practices are so engrained in certain regions that the authority of the State is sometimes flouted. |
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They continue to ensure that the central promise of return is flouted and mocked. |
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But in no case were these flouted too indelicately or ostentatiously. |
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In fact, the aggressor in this war has not only ignored the relevant UN resolution, it has defied the United Nations and openly flouted international law. |
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In the past there have been a number of cases in which employers openly flouted the labour regulations and failed to observe even this minimal protocol when sacking workers. |
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That would be no good if rights already in the law can be flouted by the Member States. |
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The government tries to pass the buck and the Conservatives are conspicuously silent only when the law is being flouted by one of their own. |
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In 1996 an inferno killed 162 people in the crowded Ozone discotheque, which had flouted fire-safety regulations. |
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It focuses on a Vancouver counterfeiter of DVD products who repeatedly flouted the system over a period of years. |
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Does that not make a mockery of the Internal Market, if the rules are so often flouted? |
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These decisive, no nonsense responses demonstrate very clearly that pay equity legislation cannot be flouted or ignored. |
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We cannot stand by while United Nations resolutions are flouted by an aggressive policy of settlements and a refusal to seek peace. |
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The Presidency said that the referendum of 4 August violated the Constitution and flouted the ruling of the Constitutional Court. |
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Discrimination towards them is really worrying and their fundamental rights are flouted. |
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The Red Bond interest rates would correspondingly react to any fiscal policy which flouted the sustainability imperative. |
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For nearly 40 years now the principles of discrimination, precaution and proportionality have been flouted through the use of cluster munitions. |
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The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted. |
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He flouted so many conventions of what the West regards as good taste that he seemed to be angling for a role as Dr. Evil. |
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But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity. |
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While shooting was hated by the mass of the rural population, and the Game Laws universally flouted, they took a benign and active interest in the hunt. |
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The popular conception of Prohibition is that speakeasies abounded, gangsters and bootleggers of all sorts flourished, and every American gladly flouted the law. |
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The Taoiseach flouted his constitutional duty and lined-up with other Governments against the Irish people order to overthrow last year's democratic referendum result. |
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A State has flouted and violated all of those norms and covenants. |
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Downstream countries, on the other hand, think they are being overcharged for hydro power that they could do without. Not surprisingly, agreements and water quotas are often flouted. |
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And for his own part, Wesley flouted many regulations of the Church of England concerning parish boundaries and who had authority to preach. |
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Fortunately, we do have something to go on: our parents and our predecessors have established a set of principles, which have been partially achieved, are increasingly being flouted but can still guide us. |
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Double standards are applied and international law is flouted. |
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Judicial rulings from Cracow were routinely flouted, while peasants were heavily taxed and practically tied to the land as serfs. |
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Basic international fair trial standards were also flouted, including lack of credible evidence, no defense witnesses were allowed to testify and defense counsel was not allowed to question all prosecution witnesses. |
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The members of the Commission on Human Rights had a responsibility to defend universal principles and to condemn those who repeatedly flouted them. |
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Enthusiastic Protestants seem to have flouted that unwritten rule. |
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Further, the Six Separate Branches' own witness, Ms. Kitson, alluded to at least one instance of having deliberately flouted national policy, which came to the attention of VON Canada, without consequence. |
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Safety rules had been flouted because the forklift driver did not have a lookout, or banksman, to keep people out the way. |
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Community rights are being flouted to the benefit of a few individuals. |
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That approach implied that the Organization had only just begun to concern itself with those principles and that they had previously been neglected or flouted. |
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As soon as rumours of the operation reached England, public opinion was shocked by the event, which had flouted the principle of freedom of the seas. |
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Despite everyone's best efforts, the individual processing of cases is insufficient, and the general intentions of the law and the basic principles of respect for human beings are flouted. |
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When the Commission was apprised of a case in which a mother's rights had been flouted, it intervened, or, if necessary, called on the local authorities to do so. |
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Turks largely flouted the spottily enforced previous ban, but the new legislation comes packaged with a stern warning label about substantial fines for violators. |
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The Government, police forces, councils and taxpayer-funded quangos all flouted anti-secrecy laws by knocking back legitimate Freedom of Information requests. |
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Now the incident is being investigated by West Midlands Police to see whether the pair were investigating a crime or had just flouted the rules of the road. |
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