Sentence examples for an act of flouting from inspiring English sources

"No matter what excuses North Korea may have, this would be an act of flouting a U.N. Security Council resolution," Mr. Lee told a group of reporters during an interview in his office.

While the agency has fought hard to limit the Senate's purview of its detainee torture – to the point where its operatives crossed a technical firewall that the Senate considers an act of spying on it – flouting a judge's order would be a flagrant and visible act of defiance.

But she did not, at least obviously, flout the law as an act of civil disobedience.

Palestinian attacks on army checkpoints are an act of war, not a war crime, whereas blowing up buses and restaurants grossly flouts the law.

Mr. Falkenrath accused the academy of having a history of flouting zoning rules and other regulations.

Some accused the Bloomfields of having a history of flouting local regulations.

Burress has a history of flouting rules, going back to his time in Pittsburgh.

And Fox has a track record of flouting convention.

He felt chafed like a child full of flouting wishes, floating elations.

Plomley allowed him to take it, a rare case of flouting the rules.

He noted that Iraq had a long history of flouting United Nations resolutions and other agreements.