Sentence examples for had been flouted from inspiring English sources

Claiming that his authority had been flouted by management in the appointment of Christian Thielemann to lead a televised New Year's Eve concert, he resigned in anger.

(A number of coaches used player agents until the players union began enforcing a conflict-of-interest rule that had been flouted for years).

One again, locals were outraged at the stark imposition, complaining their views were blocked and that national laws had been flouted.

Red, white, and blue had monopolized big-league team colors since Bob (Death to Flying Things) Ferguson had cavorted for the Hartford Dark Blues decades before, but the Browns had been flouting color convention since their founding, in 1902.

But Bryce failed to mention that Continental Resources and the two other companies, Brigham Oil & Gas and Newfield Production Co., had been flouting the law -- and killing birds -- for years.

Alexandra Suh, executive director of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, says some downtown garment factories had been flouting existing labor laws and warns that some employers may be looking to El Paso to take advantage of laxer enforcement and a vulnerable new immigrant population.

Over the years since it was adopted, it has been flouted millions of times.

The report shows that these regulations have been flouted frequently by the new member states.

All medical guidelines and protocols seem to have been flouted by the two doctors.

Shopkeepers and residents of Tbilisi complain that their property rights have been flouted in the name of rebuilding the city.

In the interests of national security, such provisions have been flouted by Presidents ever since their enactment.