"When a determined criminal flouts international law under the principle of state sovereignty," he writes, "the world system, as currently constituted, appears unable or unwilling to stop him".
The British online gambling company Betonsports has pleaded guilty to federal racketeering under a deal to settle a criminal prosecution for flouting America's prohibition on internet casinos.
If evidence ever emerges that the Police Department, either systemically or in lone cases, is flouting the law, then civil or criminal remedies can be pursued in the courts.
The president solves the nation's unemployment crisis and executes an Al Capone-type criminal who has continually flouted the law.
The workers helped the day care centers bill the city for children who were not enrolled or for services never provided, and allowed them to remain open despite flouting rules on floor space, background checks of employees and teacher-child ratios, a criminal complaint said.
The real criminal, they say, is Mr Petro, a polemical figure who earlier this year successfully fought an attempt by Colombia's inspector general to unseat him for flouting the law by trying to fire private garbage haulers.
Was Ms. Philo flouting good taste?
The Obama administration has elected to ignore any flouting of the UN drug conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988, which require countries to prohibit the use, possession and supply of cannabis, although the US justice department has warned against allowing children to obtain the drug and profits going to criminal gangs.
Two years later, he was investigated for flouting Senate hiring rules.
Samsung says Sharp is flouting the trade commission's order.
