The phrase "violate rule" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing an instance where someone or something disregards an established regulation. For example: "The driver was found guilty of violating the speed limit."
But to gaze at the marine traffic would violate Rule No. 1 of bamboo scaffolding: Don't look down.
One reason you violate Rule No. 1 is because you've already violated Rule No. 2: "Never want it more than they do".
Leaking information to banks and other investors about the impending debt downgrade would clearly violate the company's policy, but it is not clear whether that disclosure would also violate Rule 17g-4.
Often they are a competitor's main source of income: yet athletes who dare violate Rule 40 – by thanking a non-Olympic sponsor in a tweet, say – could be chucked out of the Games.
According to the Olympic Charter, it can expel athletes who violate Rule 50, which states "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas".
That would violate rule number two.
The dictionary defines "cheating" as "to violate rules dishonestly".
More generally, bankers are concerned because many leases allow drillers to operate in ways that violate rules in landowners' mortgages.
After age two they will playfully violate rules on acceptable behaviour in order to test the validity of that standard.
He did not willfully violate rules of engagement, nor did he authorize flight crews to file false reports.
The new laws preserve the ability of Los Angeles to prosecute businesses that violate rules set by voters in 2013.
