Sentence examples for plain violation from inspiring English sources

He accused General McChrystal of "a plain violation of the principle of civilian control".

The court therefore acts in plain violation of the Constitution when it denies effect to this act of Congress...

that question first by describing what is special about Europe's joblessness; second, by looking at various attempted reforms; and third by suggesting why reform has been so hard to accomplish .The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from exploiting this is a plain violation of this most sacred property".

The California energy crisis (and, later, the fear of increasing dependence on Middle Eastern oil) have been invoked to justify pell-mell exploration for relatively trivial amounts of oil and gas on fragile Western lands, often in plain violation of environmental rules.

This is in plain violation of law.

Hawaii called the refusal to recognize grandparents and other relatives as an acceptable family relationship "a plain violation of the Supreme Court's command".

Christian legal advocates counter that such plain violations are far less common than the opposite problem: overzealous officials trying to cleanse the schools of religion, punishing students for protected speech like personal prayer or handing out devotional messages to their friends.

The purely logical fallacies are plain violations of syllogistic rules like undistributed middle and illicit process.

On Tuesday, city building officials issued the company doing the renovation work, Cross Construction of White Plains, a violation for "failure to carry out demolition operations in a safe and proper manner," Mark Topping, a spokesman for the department, said yesterday.

"This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law," said the Authors Guild president, Nick Taylor.

The review found that some narcotics team officers were working in plain clothes, in violation of a directive that they wear jackets identifying them as the police, Mr. Kelly has said.