Sentence examples for flouting tradition from inspiring English sources

Flouting tradition, Mitt Romney's super PAC, Restore Our Future, is accepting campaign donations from government contractors.

Flouting tradition, his first foreign excursion was not to Canada but to Mexico.

Where Eliot was the famous defender of tradition, order and civilised taste, the crux of Groucho's humour was flouting tradition, fomenting chaos and outraging taste.

Women are forced to marry their rapists to salvage the reputation of their families, and some are killed by their families for flouting tradition, even for doing nothing more than going out at night with female friends.

It is probably just as well not to flout tradition, particularly when it would be expensive.

The X-Type flouts tradition with all-wheel drive, the first such drivetrain from Jaguar.

Most listeners flouted tradition by remaining seated through the "Hallelujah" chorus, but they leapt to applaud at the end.

The tactic would seem to flout tradition; defensive end Michael Strahan said Wednesday that he likes to stay in the game because he loses momentum when he leaves.

That was important enough for Procter to flout tradition by keeping the Herbal Essences account at Kaplan Thaler -- an agency that had never worked for Procter -- at the same time it let go another Clairol agency it inherited without a Procter track record, the New York office of Foote, Cone & Belding, owned by the Interpublic Group of Companies.

Profile : Turkey's First Lady Has a Few Ideas of Her Own : Semra Ozal flouts tradition.

I may flout tradition by topping bruschetta with any number of unsanctioned ingredients, but I do try to remember that simpler is better.