"gravely violate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or action that is very serious in its violation of a code of conduct or law. For example: "The company was found to have gravely violated the labor laws."
Rutger's president, Richard McCormick, said that if the allegations against Ravi and Wei proved true, they "gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity".
But in a statement late Wednesday, the university's president, Richard L. McCormick, said, "If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity".
Rutgers University President Richard McCormick wrote in a letter to the campus, "If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity".
In a message to Soviet military headquarters in East Berlin, the American command accused East German border guards of "gravely violating" the United States sector boundary while "viciously" firing at refugees trying to reach West Berlin.
Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party said the court "gravely violated" international law and called on the government to demand an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council to end the EU peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Two government reports released Wednesday show that billions of dollars spent on anti-drug efforts in Latin America have failed to curb the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. To escalate: China has accused Vietnam of "gravely violating" its sovereignty in a continued dispute over waters in the South China Sea.
Following the 2014 meeting, however, China's Foreign Ministry issued a statement stating that the U.S. had "gravely violated basic norms governing the international relations and seriously harmed the Sino-U.S. relations".
"The unlawful landing of the Japanese rightwingers on the Chinese territory of the Diaoyu islands was a gravely provocative action violating Chinese territorial sovereignty," Hong Lei, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement.
Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, said, "Over a period of two years, Russell engaged in the systematic abuse of the associational rights of its workers in Honduras, thereby gravely and repeatedly violating the universities' codes of conduct".
While there are sound arguments for law-abiding behavior even when a law is ludicrous, in this situation you harm no one while relieving the suffering of the gravely ill who have no alternative remedy -- compelling reasons to violate the law.
"England cannot violate that".
