Sentence examples for flout anything from inspiring English sources

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Today's Times op-ed by graybeards Hamilton and Kean, squarely declaring the obvious -- that the withholding of interrogation tapes is an obstruction of the 9-11 Commishows -- shows again (again and again and again) the degree to which the powers that be believe they can flout anything and everything they care to.

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Mr. Snow, who has spent his artistic life flouting preconceptions about narrative, dispenses with anything that could be considered narrative in "*Corpus".

By 1590 playwrights were prohibited from dramatizing religious issues and had to resort to history, mythology, allegory, or allusion in order to say anything about contemporary society; flouting these restrictions meant imprisonment.

Gafcon became necessary following the persistent failure of the current authorities in the Anglican Communion to do anything about this deliberate flouting of Christian teaching and decisions of the whole Anglican Communion and its leadership.

"Another example of the moral decline on German football pitches," was Frankfurter Rundschau's severe verdict, while Handelsblatt determined that "everything that football stands for has been flouted" and called for "a punishment that dwarves anything that hardened offenders like Borussia Dortmund's former coach Jürgen Klopp have faced in the past".

Trump's pardoning of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is a message not only to his white far-right followers and to U.S. Latinos, but to witnesses whose cooperation (or silence) he needs (think Flynn, Paul Manafort and many others) and above all, to the very rule of law, which Arpaio flouted and for which Trump has never shown anything but contempt.

Premier League managers don't make anything of it; League managers have been openly scorning it – flouting the rules which force them to field five 'first-teamers' against the big clubs' kids.

But over the past decade several teams have managed to flout this rule and observe a quantum system without affecting it--although never with anything as fragile as a single photon.

If anything about Trump is still surprising at this point, it is how openly and brazenly he has flouted the basic conventions of American leadership ― and all while Republicans sit quietly by, pretending he's not also upending longstanding conservative principles.

These measures flout legal precedent.

Russia also offers no help on China's dilemma over North Korea, where Pyongyang flouts Beijing's directives with impunity on the presumption that China is too fearful of precipitous unification under South Korean-American auspices to do anything about it.

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