Sentence examples for flout existing from inspiring English sources

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During the month I staffed the Predatory Loan Help Hotline operated by the Virginia Poverty Law Center, I heard plenty of stories from people who had been harassed and threatened with lawsuits by businesses that routinely flout existing regulation.

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It said that the proposal flouted existing guidelines under the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, and did not take into account the complexities of the State Supreme Court's Mount Laurel decision mandating housing for low- and moderate-income residents throughout the state.

Much as outside observers have long suspected, the lion's share of the jobs flow to a small cadre of politically plugged-in lawyers and relatives and pals of judges -- flouting existing rules that bar nepotism and limit lawyers to one $5,000 assignment per year.

The legislation largely draws on the issues highlighted by advocates and activists against sexual assault -- as well as a recent survey of colleges by McCaskill's staff, which suggested many schools were flouting existing law on these cases.

Desktop manufacturing company Stratsys felt that the student in question, Cody Wilson, was flouting existing federal firearms laws and stated that it is not its policy to "knowingly allow its printers to be used for illegal purposes".

Alexandra Suh, executive director of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, says some downtown garment factories had been flouting existing labor laws and warns that some employers may be looking to El Paso to take advantage of laxer enforcement and a vulnerable new immigrant population.

That brings us to the hapless HBOS, whose shares have dropped almost 90% in the course of a year, and which has had to be rescued by Lloyds TSB in a deal that flouts all existing competition rules.

"For too long, the New York State tax on tobacco products has applied to some but not all, with businesses on Indian reservations openly flouting a Supreme Court ruling and existing state law," the mayor said in a statement.

Critics say existing rules are routinely flouted by doctors.

I would like to see a system where the police deal with such offences, but since existing laws are being flouted, it's unquestionably the case that much more education is needed.

Music piracy became to the early two-thousands what drug experimentation had been to the late nineteen-sixties: a generation-wide flouting of both social norms and the existing body of law, with little thought for consequences.

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