The phrase "a technical violation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to law, regulations, or rules where a minor breach occurs without significant consequences.
Example: "The company faced penalties for a technical violation of safety regulations, but no harm was done."
Alternatives: "a minor infraction" or "a procedural breach".
"You give this agency and its officers nothing, but that same officer who works with a yellow pad in some crummy office... can just violate" -- imprison on a technical violation -- one person a week and spend $2 million".
"This is not a technical violation".
"It's really a technical violation of the airspace".
But still, if they have a technical violation, they could go forward".
Such ex-parte communication — or "earwigging," as it's more commonly known — is a technical violation of ethics standards, but it is hardly rare, and is usually harmless.
Bob Combs, the Tour spokesman, said yesterday that Mickelson and Mike Weir committed a technical violation of Tour regulations prohibiting placing bets on a golf tournament.
A small technical violation of these procedures can lead to awards of up to a year's salary to each employee involved.
If the controversy stays focused on what Litan has described as "a minor technical violation" of Brookings rules, he is likely to emerge with his reputation tarnished but not destroyed.
PAGE A3 Entry of Refugees Delayed About 9,500 Burmese refugees scheduled to be resettled in the United States from Thailand this year are in limbo because their indirect support for armed rebels opposed to their repressive government has put them in technical violation of an American antiterrorism law, the USA Patriot Act, government officials say.
Metts had a record of technical violations, so a judge ordered him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, administered by a private monitoring company that charged several hundred dollars a month.
In addition, in early August, the Taiwan authorities boarded a North Korean freighter on a technical customs violation and then found and seized barrels of phosphorus pentasulfide, a lethal material that the United States later said could be used to make chemical weapons.
