Sentence examples for chose to violate from inspiring English sources

"The owners chose to violate the law," said Cortez Trotter, director of the city's office of emergency management.

In a controversial move, his widow and executor, Mary Welsh Hemingway, who wrote her own memoir in 1976 titled "How It Was," eventually chose to violate his wishes and allow the publication of several unfinished manuscripts and of 600 of his letters in Carlos Baker's "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961".

His widow and executor, Mary Welsh Hemingway, describing the burden of this restriction as one that "caused me continuous trouble, and disappointment to others," eventually chose to violate it, publishing excerpts from certain letters in "How It Was" and granting permission to Carlos Baker to publish some six hundred others in his "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917 1961".

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., chose to violate state segregation laws and faced jail to affirm God's divine image in all citizens who deserved to be treated humanely.

But the suit claims the university's athletics department "chose to violate school policy and not report to the FSU administration" when it became aware of the rape allegations.

He continued: "There is no reason why a company should be able to escape normal enforcement and implementation of the Code simply because it chooses to violate the code in such brazen manner that curing the violation would cause non-trivial complications for a major television series".

Why would Mr. Gupta, a wealthy man by all accounts, choose to violate his corporate responsibilities by passing confidential information to Mr. Rajaratnam?

A man with Mr. Gupta's credentials would not choose to violate the law in the seventh decade of his life, Mr. Naftalis argued.

Then there is the bright red, blobby light fixture hanging among the ornate chandeliers, chosen to "violate the style of the room," he said.

However, he said in an interview, "If everyone can pick and choose the laws that they don't particularly like, and choose to violate them, then you have a situation of pandemonium".

"We have fought, and will continue to fight, hard to protect our proprietary technology and intellectual property rights against those who choose to violate them," George Perlegos, president and chief executive of Atmel, said in a statement.