Sentence examples for flout it from inspiring English sources

It was as brutal and illegal a violation of international law as Putin's annexation of Crimea but the West only tends to get worked up about international law when its opponents, not its allies, flout it.

And Apple chose to flout it.

And at least one theater has decided to flout it.

The government has promised to clamp down firmly on any pupils who flout it.

She found the vicar's decision intolerable and promised to flout it.

The law is the law, they might say, and if we flout it here it becomes an ass elsewhere.

North Korea has repeatedly demonstrated that it will flout its NPT obligations whenever it believes it serves its interests.

Mrs. Thatcher flouted it.

But the rebels have flouted it ever since.

Davis flouted league decorum in the front office; the Raiders flouted it on the field.

Gangsters flouted it (with Capone so brazen that he held news conferences).