Sentence examples for flouting at from inspiring English sources

But what Mr. Klein did not know then was that Microsoft began flouting at least the spirit of the consent decree it had just signed.

• But Title IX quotas being flouted at major universities?

Democracy south of the Sahara may be sloppy and haphazard, but electoral contests and term limits are increasingly accepted as fixed rules, to be flouted at a would-be ruler's peril, rather than distant ideals.

The freedom afforded by animation — a realm where the prosaic standards of verisimilitude and the inconvenient laws of physics can be flouted at will — allows Mr. Folman to blend grimly literal images with surreal flights of fantasy, humor and horror.

Rules were flouted at several levels.

Flouting the law, sneering at democracy, bachelor-at-large Michele Bloomberlusconi triumphed yesterday in his flagrant third-time purchase of the top spot in the supposedly smartest city in the world.

Yet despite the science, we humans are very good at flouting evidence and fanning stigma in its many forms.

That should have been flouting, meaning to scoff at or show disregard for.

In doing this, he flouts probability at every turn.

A sign proclaimed that luggage and carts were not allowed on the exhibit floor, a rule flouted by at least a few determined people with rolling suitcases packed with free books.

At school, flouting hostile opinion, she wore trousers, played football and got involved in fights.