Sentence examples for that would flout from inspiring English sources

In Germany, for instance, employees must have a place on the audit committee of a company, a presence that would flout the act's independence rule.

It has legislation in hand to annul the independence of Italy's energy regulator, though that would flout the European Union's policy of creating a free market in energy.

Critics say they believe that would flout Congress's 2000 mandate that female-owned businesses receive at least 5percentt of the $435 billion in annual government contracts.

That choice, he says, rests on a government policy that withholds welfare benefits for the duration of a hospital stay at the state's expense.Some think South Africa should consider forcibly confining unco-operative patients carrying the nastiest strains, however much that would flout individual liberty.

When a ban on smoking in city parks took effect one year ago, some tobacco partisans vowed it would not stick, that it was unenforceable, that they would flout it to their dying breaths.

David D. Doniger, who works on global atmosphere policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental advocacy group, said that bill would "flout our country's binding obligations under a treaty that the U.S. has ratified and legally bound itself to follow".

The local branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry, perhaps expecting that many would flout the ban, posted a shark attack survival guide on its Web site.

Still, the proposal was widely criticized, with politicians here saying that it would flout international law and alter NATO's mission in Afghanistan.

Michael Wines (NYT) RUSSIA: FLIGHTS TO IRAQ PROPOSED -- Aeroflot and Vnukovo airlines repeated their intent to seek Russian approval to open commercial air service to Baghdad despite complaints by the United States and other Western nations that it would flout the United Nations' economic sanctions against Iraq.

The French Rugby Federation has been obstructive towards the new tournament, saying among other things that it would flout French law, and the RaboDirect unions have been waiting to see whether the Top 14 clubs will be persuaded to commit to ERC.

In such a case, S is enabled to fulfill a conversational maxim (by meaning something other than what she actually expresses) precisely by speaking in such a way that she would flout the maxim, blatantly violate it, if she were to mean what she says.