The row erupted after the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, said the media "need to think whether it's a very good idea for our lawmakers to be in effect flouting a court order because they disagree with the order or, for that matter, because they disagree with the law of privacy which parliament has created".
Also on Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion in a federal court in New York asking a judge to hold the C.I.A. in contempt for flouting a 2004 court order that it said required that the agency retain and identify all material related to the treatment of detainees in C.I.A. custody.
Possibly what we are looking at is some sort of proto-Nietzscheanism, a joy in flouting morals.
In brief, it's too high a price for this country to pay -- in environmental damage, in precious oil squandered, in flouting state-of-the-art vehicle safety standards -- for a legion of affluent Walter Mittys to release their inner Paul Bunyans.
Posthumous notoriety was to follow as Wollstonecraft became identified only with the Vindication of the Rights of Woman and that work was ironically, in turn, equated with a flouting of social conventions, principally in relation to marriage.
The inspector general did seem to back up the Obama administration's portrayal of a roguelike operation in Cincinnati flouting the wishes of senior I.R.S. officials in Washington.
Mrs Clooney's legal team said targeted sanctions can be appropriate even to address individual cases of human rights violations where a government persists in flouting its obligations under international law.
The Israeli government first tested that relationship in January, when it approved an expansion of settlements in the West Bank, flouting a bloc of 70 countries that warned such a move would put the two-state solution in danger.
As described by the lab's director, the acerbic Dr. G. Peter Nanos, the problem involved careless, arrogant "cowboys" engaging in a "willful flouting of the rules".
The 16 countries using the euro would face an additional sanction — a requirement to deposit a large amount of money in an interest-bearing account — if they persisted in flouting E.U. spending rules.
