"has been flouting" is a grammatically correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is used to describe someone who has been openly disregarding or disregarding a rule or law. For example: "The company has been flouting environmental regulations for years, despite numerous warnings from the government."
"At the same time, within Gaza, Isis has been flouting Hamas.
"At the same time, within Gaza, Isis [Islamic State] has been flouting Hamas.
Amid the bout of schadenfreude, no one mentioned that France has been flouting EU air quality targets since 2005.
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.
The outrageously talented Lisa Yuskavage has been flouting and exalting figurative painting for nearly two decades, in luminous, color-soaked scenes of female nudes that are equal parts kitsch (imagine a Hummel figurine posing for Penthouse) and Old Master (art critics drop names from Vermeer to Pontormo).
One noteworthy pairing: a self-portrait by the American painter Joan Semmel, who has been flouting clichés of the passive female muse since the nineteen-seventies, and a haunting silk screen on lead by the Austrian Eva Schlegel, in which a woman's figure, silhouetted by sky, is either flying or falling.
Over the years since it was adopted, it has been flouted millions of times.
All this is illegal under international law, which has been flouted by Israel, aided by the complicity of western governments.
But in the rush to understand and report the death of Robin Williams, even that basic rule has been flouted.
In more recent times, the popes have had no civil power outside the 110 acres of Vatican City, no military at all, and even their moral authority has been flouted by legions of the faithful).
In his letter, dated 14 October and issued through his lawyers, former world rally champion Vatanen complained that the "principle of neutrality has been flouted constantly by the FIA".
