Until now, blocking traffic has been considered an administrative violation rather than a criminal one, and has seldom been prosecuted.
But the airstrikes we are likely to witness in the coming days would seem to constitute a violation rather than a defense of those values.
Then the woman's body has in a sense been kidnapped by her assailant, and the life inside her is the consequence of a violation rather than a choice.
Some in the Assembly, led by Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn, have been pushing to include as part of the DNA bill a measure that would make it a violation, rather than a crime, to possess very small amounts of marijuana in public view, but it was not clear whether that provision would make it into the final language.
Right now, selling synthetic cannabinoids a violation rather than a felony will get you a slap in the wrist, like a $500 fine, according to Klein.
The conference listed FGM as a form of violence against women, marking it as a human-rights violation, rather than a medical issue.
Commissioner Kelly and I support Governor Cuomo's proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation, rather than a misdemeanor and we'll work to help him pass it this year.
But one organization, Parking Mobility, wants people simply to use an app to report violations rather than mete out vigilante parking justice.
"Manufacturers who choose to wait until F.D.A. investigators find violations rather than policing themselves will find that they have made a poor and costly decision".
We suspect that this reflects an increased willingness to punish newcomer violations, rather than the deployment of arbitrary punitive sentiment (but see Cimino 2010).
