Sentence examples for can be flouted from inspiring English sources

"It's extraordinary that the House of Lords decision [on the Belmarsh detainees]... and the Human Rights Act can be flouted".

The rules that govern nature can be flouted – spirits and deities exist, the dead will come back to life, dreams can come true – but a new set of rules takes their place.

Undercover footage, photographic evidence and information from whistleblowers has revealed how strict industry hygiene standards to prevent the contamination of chicken with the potentially deadly campylobacter bug can be flouted on the factory floor and on farms.

Undercover footage, photographic evidence and information from whistleblowers revealed how strict industry hygiene standards to prevent the contamination of chicken with the potentially deadly campylobacter bacterium can be flouted on the factory floor and in farms.

The freedom afforded by animation — a realm where the prosaic standards of verisimilitude and the inconvenient laws of physics can be flouted at will — allows Mr. Folman to blend grimly literal images with surreal flights of fantasy, humor and horror.

The president insists that there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is found to have used chemical weapons against its people, but he has bent the red line so far, the hawks say, that not only the Syrians, but the Iranians and North Koreans will conclude Obama is a man with a marshmallow spine whose warnings can be flouted with impunity.

Because, after all, rules are made to be flouted.

But whatever the reasons, these early-20th-century galleries attest to the visual richness that can result when boundaries are flouted.

Homeowners in Barcelona found to be flouting tourist registration rental rules by, for example, listing an unregistered apartment on Airbnb, can also face big fines.

There's a circle of female executive outliers who are proclaiming, "Oh yes we can," who are flouting all the old rules governing family size.

Although the developed countries have tight norms regarding mining, such rules can be easily flouted in countries which lack strict monitoring of the procedures being followed for mining.