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The one point on which I'm inclined to agree with the noble lord, and on which evidence abounds in spades, is the fact that even now, 35 years after the Sex Discrimination Act came into force, the laws protecting women against pregnancy discrimination at work are being flouted , and seemingly indiscriminately.
Neither the board nor Pietersen's advisers denied that the player had gone on the run or even that his achilles may have been damaged during the exercise, but the ECB did deny that Pietersen had flouted instructions not to go running.
The IMC has found that the UVF leadership decided Moffett should be shot to eliminate the threat he posed to individual members of the organisation, and to send a wider message to the loyalist community that the UVF would not tolerate its authority being flouted.
Parliamentary conventions preclude an MP calling another a liar, though that rule has sometimes been flouted without rebuke – as when the Labour frontbencher Chris Bryant said in the house that Jeremy Hunt, then culture secretary, had lied to the house about his connections with the forces of Rupert Murdoch.
He is asking the state's board of pardons to reconsider its decision of last week not to grant clemency in this case; he has a habeas petition filed with Georgia's appeal court; and he is also asking the US supreme court to intervene to prevent its own 2002 ruling being flouted.
Rather, they sought the ECJ's views, which they would then take into account when passing their final judgment, based as before on whether the policy flouted Germany's basic law.The preliminary ruling from the ECJ goes some way to meeting the German court's concerns.
And though such bans, always flouted , in time were dropped, regulation of maximum rates went on; for consumer credit, till 1974 in Britain, and to this day in parts of the United States and elsewhere.
But on its commitment to let Hong Kong people run Hong Kong, China has flouted its promise of autonomy in everything apart from foreign affairs and defence.
Private landowners must abide by the Forest Code, a law dating from 1965 that requires them to leave the forest standing on part of their farms (four-fifths in the Amazon, less elsewhere), and in particular around the sources and banks of rivers, and on hillsides.But the code is routinely flouted.
Egyptians remember that it was Mr Sharon who flouted a ceasefire during the 1973 war, counter-attacking across the Suez Canal to turn Egypt's initial success into near-defeat.
Protections for "subsidiarity"—ensuring that issues are dealt with at the most appropriate level are weak at best, non-existent at worst: national parliaments are invited to speak up if they think subsidiarity has been flouted , but the European Commission is merely obliged to take note.
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"flouted" functions as a past tense verb or past participle, indicating a deliberate and often public act of disobedience. Ludwig AI confirms its status as a standard grammatical choice for expressing contempt toward regulations or conventions.
Expression frequency: Very common
