Sentence examples for may be flouted from inspiring English sources

It is not just the popular will that may be flouted.

If you read any memoir from the 30s and the war years, there is almost always a moment of realisation: what a cadaver looks like; that prisoners can be shot; that the Geneva conventions may be flouted.

That this process may be flouted by Xi is highly unsettling, according to Tsang, for those who see orderly succession as the basis for the Party's success over recent decades.

So eager are multinationals for continued access to the world's fastest-growing market that they are loath to cry foul even amid evidence that China may be flouting international trade laws.

managing director of home products and services, said: "We've repeatedly exposed Viagogo as a rogue operator and it is extremely concerning to hear suggestions that they may be flouting this court order in the same way they have flouted consumer law in the past.

Without it, tackling problems like nutrition and environment becomes harder – if there is corruption, most of the money for food may go elsewhere, and if there is little institutional control, ambitious environmental rules may just be flouted.

As conventions, they may now be flouted, parodied, played upon, or otherwise altered for strategic and interactional effect.

Democracy south of the Sahara may be sloppy and haphazard, but electoral contests and term limits are increasingly accepted as fixed rules, to be flouted at a would-be ruler's peril, rather than distant ideals.

Because, after all, rules are made to be flouted.

If the FFT data is accurate, the law may be being flouted by thousands of families.

The administration already seems to be flouting the law.