Sentence examples for violating legislation from inspiring English sources

In the infamous Scopes "Monkey trial" of 1925, John Scopes, a substitute high school biology teacher in Tennessee, was prosecuted for violating legislation against the teaching of Darwinian evolution.

"Violating legislation", writes Béatrice Houchard in "Road Delinquency", a new book, "is a national sport".Hence the perplexity over the speed cameras.

In both cases the department's contracting practices stretched or violated legislation, policy, and regulations intended to optimize the use of taxpayer dollars and guarantee that inherently governmental functions are reserved only for government personnel".

"In our letters we regularly remind [companies] of the consequences of violating the legislation," said Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky.

"They were legally assigned to the Russian Embassy in Qatar, conducting analytical work in connection with countering international terrorism, without violating local legislation in any way," the acting foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, said in the statement.

Anyone found violating the legislation could face jail time and fines up to $136,000.

In 2005, the California Teachers Associationn sued Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for taking more than $5 billion out of the state's education budget and thereby violating state legislation that provided a minimal funding ratio for the schools.

Officials argued Makoko's living conditions were unsanitary and that it violated environmental legislation.

The court ruled that the ban violated provincial legislation that says the public school system must be secular and nonsectarian.

Mr. Isola warned that Spanish economic sanctions violate European Union legislation that guarantees the free movement of people and goods within the 28-nation bloc.

Officials said the pictures "violated existing legislation," but no more specifics were given and according to reports the gallery's owner, Alexander Donskoy, said he had seen no formal warrant for the removal of the paintings.