Sentence examples for flouted for from inspiring English sources
Grieve was clearly unimpressed: "It ill serves the parliamentary process if court orders are openly flouted for no good reason.
(A number of coaches used player agents until the players union began enforcing a conflict-of-interest rule that had been flouted for years).
Mr. Fowler said his report to the council "offered a blueprint for change," and said: "Sanctions had been grievously flouted for nearly seven years.
Everyone is aware of these fundamental truths, and no one is likely to complain when they are flouted for purposes of entertainment.
While I agree with Crain on the fact that the rules of capitalization should not be randomly flouted for cute brand names, in this case, his example may be taken to project English grammar and punctuation rules on a language in which they do not apply in the same ways.
"Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose," Bercow said.
Although she has dug up information about things like the history of the colon, Truss is so uninterested in the actual rules of punctuation that she even names the ones she flouts — for example, the rule that semicolons cannot be used to set off dependent clauses.
Moments after Hemming had named Giggs, Bercow interrupted to tell the MP: "Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose.
The outrage engendered by their abuse led to a series of treaties regulating prisoner treatment — treaties the United States has flouted, ostensibly for similar reasons, since 9/11.
Bashar al-Assad's regime with the full support of Vladimir Putin and the Russian military—have flouted calls for a complete ceasefire.
In recent years, the Department of Environmental Protection has been tightening enforcement of dam safety laws, widening its net to catch smaller dam owners who have flouted regulations for decades.
