Sentence examples for had been flouting from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

"At the same time, within Gaza, Isis has been flouting Hamas.

"At the same time, within Gaza, Isis [Islamic State] has been flouting Hamas.

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

Nat, though, starts to wonder if what they're doing is possible at all, if they've been flouting some law of nature in pulling it off for the last thirteen years.

But the Iranian fleet has been flouting safety rules and turning its beacons off since April, according to the IEA, allowing vessels to make clandestine port visits and mid-ocean oil transfers.Even if it could spot illicit transactions, America might still choose to ignore them.