Sentence examples for mere violation from inspiring English sources

Do not let anyone convince you that Trump's evils are matters of performance or personality or affect — that they can be overlooked, or that there is a mere violation of decorum underway.

Is there really such a difference that the second can be dismissed as the way of the world, while the first is "not mere violation but something more profound," a crime so audacious that "a general deterioration in the valuation of human life, such as was seen in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, could happen again"?

The trouble with this crude argument is once again in the definition of "miracle," which here goes beyond a mere violation concept in adding immutability, which generates the contradiction.

Real theft is genuinely despicable, they might agree, while insider trading is a mere violation of a made-up rule.

Previously such actions were regarded as mere violations of privacy.

Ironically, the publication of the rules of engagement allowed commanders to treat brutalities such as murder, rape, and arson as mere violations of rules, and in any event such serious crimes were rarely reported officially.

Bernard Harrison attempts to meet this challenge by distinguishing the sorts of inappropriateness that result from violations of category facts (such as the former) from those that result from mere violations of facts of usage (the latter) (1965, 315 16).

But even if this partly reflects evolved psychological mechanisms or 'modules' governing social sentiments and responses, much of it may also be the result of human intelligence grasping (under varying cultural conditions) genuine morally relevant distinctions or facts—such as the difference between the normative force that attends harm and that which attends mere violations of convention.

What had been a concealed joint and the merest violation of the law was transformed into a misdemeanor by being "openly displayed".

It was also relevant that the "crime" he was accused of was a mere traffic violation.

"It's clear that the potential unlawful import of this drug was more than a mere paperwork violation," he said.