Sentence examples for shocking violations from inspiring English sources

"As shocking violations of international humanitarian law and refugee rights continue on a daily basis, WHS participants will be pressed to a consensus on non-specific, good intentions to 'uphold norms' and 'end needs'," it said.

More than 200 writers, including several guests of the festival, signed a PEN International statement condemning the "enforced silence" as a "deeply shocking" violation of free speech.

Mr. Shargel wrote a letter on Wednesday to Judge Danny K. Chun of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, arguing that showing prosecutors interviewing witnesses and making statements about the case before a trial has taken place was a "shocking" violation of professional conduct rules demanded of all lawyers.

In 1764, the patriot James Otis, Jr., declared that nothing could be said "in favor of a trade that is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish the idea of the inestimable value of liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant".

The bill was never analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office, a shocking violation of the normal legislative process, but outside studies made two things clear: the over-all pot of federal money for health insurance would dramatically decline, and regulations barring the worst excesses of the pre-Obamacare era would be relaxed in many places.

This is a shocking violation of 75 years of securities regulation.

That is a shocking violation of the requirement to inform shareholders of any material matters that could impact their vote or holding of shares in either company.

As we all know now, in a major and rather shocking violation of his marriage to Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger had an affair with the family housekeeper in the mid-'90s which resulted in a son.

Drewery Dyke, a researcher for Amnesty International, told the Guardian in an earlier interview the trial had been "strewn with a catalogue of flaws and shocking human rights violations", including imprisonment for a year without charge or access to counsel.

The favoured political model, authoritarian state capitalism, has not worked and the efforts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to exploit hydrocarbons have been slowed by corruption.Islam Karimov, the veteran leader of Uzbekistan, the most populous of the five, has kept his country secular and relatively stable at the cost of shocking human-rights violations.

"Far from bringing security to the region, the SPLA and the police auxiliary forces have committed shocking human rights violations and the authorities are doing very little to stop the abuse," Amnesty International's Africa Director, Audrey Gaughran, said in the statement.