Sentence examples for flagrant contravention from inspiring English sources

He was elegantly dressed, and smoked, in flagrant contravention of college rules, from a long cigarette holder.

A week on, Carteret can't contain her anger at what she sees as a flagrant contravention of her civil liberties.

The Fantastic Four are back for a defiantly cheerful no-brainer romp, in flagrant contravention of the fanboy rule that all comic-book adaptations have to be "dark".

"The forced labour, mass evictions, land and food confiscation by the military are a flagrant contravention of human rights as well as international and domestic law".

Further, on September 26 , 1944 UNWCC delegates agreed wholeheartedly that both Nazi leaders and on-the-ground perpetrators were "co-responsible for the criminal policy of Germany during the war in flagrant contravention of the rules and customs of war".

Because if that was to be the case - and I agree with the Commissioner here - then of course this would be in flagrant contravention of the excellent alliance and trade relations that Europe has with America.

In one of the most flagrant contraventions of its responsibilities under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, Cambodian police in 2009 deported 20 ethnic Uighurs back to China despite the group having received letters of protection from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Another woman has her feet on the table, legs apart, in a flagrant contravention of social etiquette.

No flagrant.

Flagrant display of weapons.

There were flagrant fouls, yes!