Sentence examples for major violation of from inspiring English sources

He called the actions a "major violation" of the 1951 Geneva convention on the treatment of refugees.

A penalty shot at goal from a penalty mark 13 feet away is awarded to the victim of a major violation of rules.

The authority originally chastised Silverite for "serious and material contract breaches" on the earlier project because of a major violation of asbestos procedures in the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.

In a 1998 essay titled "The Wisdom of Repugnance," he termed cloning "a major violation of our given nature" because for people to clone themselves and live for ever would shatter the natural link between reproduction and death.

But government surveillance, like any human activity, is going to have errors, and it's far from clear, at this point, that the N.S.A.'s errors amounted to a major violation of law or an invasion of privacy.

Judge Martin Glenn asked a lawyer for the trustee if he knew whether customer money had been mingled with company cash, a major violation of Wall Street rules and a potential explanation for the shortfall.

The penalty for major violations of these tapu was often death.

The Communist Party made small gains, despite what Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist leader, called major violations of election laws.

The proposed univariate approach allows data from such designs to be analysed with adequate power and no major violations of statistical assumptions.

Rodriguez drew the N.C.A.A.'s ire for major violations of rules governing practice, which gave Michigan officials cover for dismissing him.

Major violations of human rights in Afghanistan began even before the large-scale presence of Soviet troops in the country, according to the report.