Sentence examples for flouting them from inspiring English sources

He echoed Bachelet's insistence that human rights were sacrosanct and that flouting them was incompatible with the duty of a Chilean officer.

Bernardin, however, saw two agents obeying the traffic laws — himself and the car driver — and a third who, by flouting them, introduced the element of danger.

She just had a camera following her.' " Ms. Polizzi seemed to know exactly what she'd be doing in some far-off future, when she is laying down the rules rather than flouting them.

Following genre conventions is not necessarily a sign of failure — some of the best movies ever are perfectly orthodox westerns, detective stories, melodramas and marriage comedies — and flouting them is not in itself a virtue.

Soon, with support from civil society and the Orthodox Church, momentum toward national renewal could reach a tipping point, where the rewards of complying with rules will outweigh flouting them.

Self-regulatory codes are not enforceable by law; but the vast majority of marketers abide by them as a rule of thumb, sanctions are effective, and the brand damage to companies flouting them can be severe.

Employers will often flout them".

Far from scrapping BEE rules, the government is seeking stiffer penalties for firms that flout them.

In 1962 they flouted them all by fighting a brief, bloody border war.

Twelve unelected and anonymous people should not be able to flout them behind closed doors.

But those guidelines carried no penalty for firms or analysts who flouted them.