Sentence examples for was flouting from inspiring English sources

Yet how quickly talk of sending EU troops to uphold the ceasefire that Russia was flouting died away.

Already a prodigy, the young Piggott was flouting authority long before flared trousers and nostrils assaulted the Sixties.

But State Department officials felt that Mr. Horn, in his eagerness to do his job, was flouting policy guidelines.

I have no idea, even now, if that was the way the piece was supposed to go or if she was flouting him on purpose.

This was immaterial to Mr Dewhurst, who brilliantly pretended not to understand how he was flouting the rules he was so obviously keen to flout.

Where Eliot was the famous defender of tradition, order and civilised taste, the crux of Groucho's humour was flouting tradition, fomenting chaos and outraging taste.

But some candidates are flouting this advice.

Samsung says Sharp is flouting the trade commission's order.

But Russia is flouting the Council of Europe's core principles.

But Laidlaw complains that competitors are flouting the rules.

"An estimated 1.4 million drivers are flouting the law by driving without insurance.