Sentence examples for would be to violate from inspiring English sources

But to do so would be to violate the spirit of the award.

The mayor even argued that to let the press watch the police retake Zuccotti Park would be to violate the privacy of protesters.

If I love her, I must not touch her; to do so would be to violate a vow that she herself has exacted.

Nevertheless, his views have alarmed some people, including delegates to the forthcoming Vatican debate.Antonio Spagnolo, a bioethicist at the University of Macerata, Italy, and an expert on the Catholic view of death, says that to violate the dead-donor rule would be to violate the primary duty of a doctor, which is not to inflict harm.

He has cited the opinion of the chief justice of the state's supreme court, Roy Moore, who has given a counter-order to probate judges that they should not participate in gay marriages, as to do so would be to violate the word of God.

However, Basho wrote relatively little of Nikkō in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, although this prose-poem offers clues and suggests that his thoughts would not be public ones: "To say more of the shrine would be to violate its holiness [9]".

To have done otherwise would have been to violate everything we believe in this country about no one being above the law.

(Senior Manager, Clinical Services) Some participants suggested that an integral component of the clinical champions/role models' function would be to identify personnel who repeatedly violate hand hygiene best practice: I know doctors have a lot of things on their minds, but this is a crucial, very simple thing you can do and I think we have got to start naming people.

Rather, the mission's main aim would be to punish Mr Assad for flagrantly violating an international norm against the use of chemical weapons.But is this enough of a justification?

If it tried to enact a law requiring Americans to eat broccoli, that would be likely to violate bodily integrity and the right to liberty.

They have easy access to arms because until recently there were no agreed international standards linking export licenses to the likelihood the guns would be used to violate human rights.