'overlook the rules' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an idea of not paying attention to or disregarding a set of rules. For example, "The teacher overlooked the rules and allowed the students to use their phones during class."
Russia, sometimes overlooking the rules of courtesy, invites NATO to discuss such arrangements.
The ref should have remembered that Totti already had a yellow card and should have fixed him a glare and overlooked the rule that said diving in the box is worth a yellow card.
And although I accidentally broke my grandfather's tenet to avoid medals, I'm pretty sure he would have overlooked the rule just this once.
Although this can be justified by extrapolation of the evidence from the PROWESS trial, practical critical care management in this setting must not overlook the need to rule out infection of necrosis, and must further be cognisant of the specific risks of haemorrhage in patients with prolonged pancreatitis and pancreatic necrosis.
Nevertheless, the current international rules overlook the possibility that noseband can appear innocuous even though some designs, such as the so-called crank noseband, can be ratcheted shut to clamp the jaws together.
Rather than granting breeders more protection, the new balance found in the international breeders' rights legislation might thus overlook the role of liability rules embedded within the breeders' exception in the successful use of agrobiodiversity on farm and other small breeding programmes.
At the same time let's not overlook the Obama Administration's new rules on heavy trucks and aircraft, which build on the 2012 car standards, and will result in very real decreases in U.S. carbon pollution.
In this sense, greening interventions aim to develop standard rules that overlook the context of the single MS as a result of the negotiation process.
Most fans will overlook the nuances of the revised rule — which hinges on a single missing plate appearance — and simply see baseball stripping a cheater of an honor.
The loyalty of its members was frail and many of them are now ready to forget the past, just as they were willing to overlook the evils of Mr. Hussein's rule.
