Sentence examples for openly violated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Spitzer said that kind of self-dealing, though mostly conducted openly, violated state laws on the conduct of nonprofit corporations.

The U.S., a sponsor of the Oslo Accords, has openly violated one of its paramount provisions: that the status of Jerusalem be decided in final-status negotiations.

Unlike the average radical, then, Shelley didn't just challenge social taboos; he openly violated them, living his personal life in accordance with unpopular principles like equality, women's rights, and free love.

A commentary on Iran's state-run radio yesterday said the British vessels "openly violated a recognised border treaty", and that Iran was sending a "message to countries disrupting stability in the Persian Gulf".

For over a decade the US condemned human rights in Cuba even as it operated a facility in that very country, Guantánamo Bay, which openly violated those very rights.

Adding some of their own fuel to the "material breach" argument, Mr. Blix and Dr. ElBaradei pointed out that Iraq had openly violated past resolutions by barring arms inspectors for the last four years.

A small handful of counterrevolutionaries began spreading rumors and openly violating martial law.

The General Accounting Office recently estimated that 52percentt of the nation's 1.6 million farm workers are here illegally, a formidable army whose presence openly violates American laws.

The European Parliament called on Thursday for the 2008 Games to be withheld from Beijing because China "openly violates human, civil and political rights".

"It does show the understandably huge mistrust of the Chinese legal system by experienced reporters and their willingness to believe that, in the biggest political case since the trial of the Gang of Four, the government would openly violate its declared legal procedures before the world," Professor Cohen said.

Under the pretext of security last May he started the policy of "push-backs", intercepting in international waters boats full of Africans hoping to reach Sicily and sending them back to Libya – even though the UN high commissioner for refugees opposed a practice that openly violates the 1951 Geneva convention on the status of refugees.