Sentence examples for to have flouted from inspiring English sources

Enthusiastic Protestants seem to have flouted that unwritten rule.

To encourage parents to register over-quota children, it reduced the penalties for anyone found to have flouted the one-child law.

He wrote that Cigna "appears to have flouted these requirements and made it more difficult for regulators and consumers to hold you accountable for your conduct".

A recent survey of 850 people in Jordan's capital, Amman, found that nearly half of teenaged boys and 20% of girls of the same age thought "honour killings" of women deemed to have flouted sexual norms could be justified.

If the company was found to have flouted the rule, it could be forced to pay a fine of up to one million rubles (£10895.47) or halt its activities for 90 days.

Violence It is believed that huge numbers of rapes go unreported because of women's fears of punishment (the woman could be found to have flouted sex segregation rules) and bringing "shame" on their family.

Brazil's world-beating soya farmers have flouted contracts to sell beans to trading companies when they could fetch better prices elsewhere.

But he said that I.F.C. rules allowed it to cast aside partners that have flouted standards, which are generally improving because of information dissemination.

As a result, many respected Tuscan producers have flouted convention to create new, frequently amazing reds with different varities of grape.

Only rarely are companies forced to restate their accounts after they have flouted accounting standards.

In recent years, the Department of Environmental Protection has been tightening enforcement of dam safety laws, widening its net to catch smaller dam owners who have flouted regulations for decades.