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If compromised or flouted, the bonds of order are severed.
That is the focus of investigations whether rules were flouted.
When the law was flouted, the police would often intervene.
Another possibility is that Mr Wu flouted regulations for too long.
Yet the convention and protocol, even if flouted, are not pointless.
Njoroge said authorities would be tough with bankers who flouted rules.
Among the world's most widely flouted laws are those against speeding.
Prosecutors said this deal also flouted procurement rules for state entities.
Basheer flouted precedent by relying on testimony that under settled precedent
From the beginning, President Trump has flouted safety and security protocols.
The auditors found that the Obama administration had flouted this requirement.
The rules are often flouted, and official corruption makes enforcement difficult.
One organic cattle farmer is sure the ban is being flouted.
And it's a rule that Megyn Kelly flouted again and again.
It flouted United Nations Security Council resolutions, so undermining international law.
She flouted the rules and lied to us, so we disqualified her.
Prohibition was flouted openly in big cities and discreetly in smaller locations.
The problem began with the nature of the statute Johnson had flouted.
They flouted reservation borders, believing they had sovereignty wherever the buffalo roamed.
But both regulations are widely flouted and lightly enforced by traffic police.
Putin reportedly signed off on the ceasefire, but Russia flouted it nonetheless.
Last October, many fishermen across Bangladesh blatantly flouted the hilsa fishing ban.
The Federal Election Commission is a toothless organization that is widely flouted.
Chechnya's Moscow-backed president Ramzan Kadyrov denies allegations human rights are routinely flouted.
But a new study finds those rules are being flouted by some companies.
In its focus on the bigger picture, India has often flouted Kashmiri concerns.
The ministry makes them all the time but its edicts are typically flouted.
Industrial accidents are not unusual in India, where safety measures are often flouted.
Human-rights groups protest that the rules of war are being brazenly flouted.
Though, given his popularity and their newness, he could easily have flouted them.
For nearly two years, Mr. Trump has publicly flouted his oath of office.
Some of the practices are required by law but flouted on many farms.
He flouted norms, but that might be precisely the purgative our politics needed.
But he flouted the rules, spending much of his time at Ms. Eaton's.
Some senators reportedly flouted this rule, and wore smart watches to the proceedings.
He flouted them, crowdfunding his legal bills and writing to his followers on Facebook.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the U.S. move flouted international law.
They flouted an order to turn over election data to the state Supreme Court.
China has openly flouted the rules of the World Trade Organization for a generation.
In fact, he's directly flouted it throughout much of his personal and professional career.
Indonesia suffers frequent boat sinkings, with basic safety rules often flouted and vessels overloaded.
Hezbollah has flouted that by sending fighters and advisers to Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
All season they have flouted conventional wisdom by going for it in counterintuitive situations.
United States and British regulators said Mr. Staley's efforts flouted laws protecting whistle-blowers.
Senate rules also ban all talking on the floor — a rule flouted by Sens.
Building laws and safety norms are routinely flouted in New Delhi, making fires common.
But the North has long flouted the deal, testing its first bomb 11 years ago.
MACUSA continued to impose severe penalties on those who flouted the International Statute of Secrecy.
McCoy flouted all traditional football wisdom with those calls, but his choices were hardly indefensible.
So Manning certainly flouted that one — as he's done before, as far back as 2014.
Federal regulations already prohibit such requirements, but worker advocates say the rule is routinely flouted.
President Trump has consistently flouted the safety and security apparatus designed to protect America's secrets.
During the campaign, he flouted basic traditions of transparency and threatened to jail his opponent.
More and more, the traditional international rules of war and humanitarian protection are being flouted.
It is just the latest legally mandated congressional deadline that the Trump administration has flouted.
The Geneva Conventions on protecting civilians in wartime — never consistently enforced — are now openly flouted.
It is just the latest legally mandated congressional deadline that the Trump administration has flouted.
Just a year ago, Mr Macron flouted rules by launching his own political movement, En Marche!
Investigators said the criminal case would look into suggestions that flight safety rules had been flouted.
When he took over, party discipline was slack: corruption was rife and officials routinely flouted orders.
Individual bad actors who have flouted the law are no longer free to operate with impunity.
Some women who have protested that restriction — or flouted it — have been harshly penalized or arrested.
The legitimacy of an independent judiciary is undermined when the rules are "flouted," the judge said.
But Trump has flouted experts before, including by agreeing to the summit in the first place.
North Korea flouted United Nations resolutions on Friday by firing two Rodong medium-range ballistic missiles.
Provisions to limit the number of hours spent online probably could be easily flouted, he said.
Perhaps that is precisely why the standard is flouted by those who want to politicize everything.
Mr. Trump has also flouted established science with his efforts to link childhood vaccines to autism.
He often flouted local regulations, pushing Uber to expand to new cities as rapidly as possible.
He flouted court orders by making unauthorized travel plans, and tested positive for marijuana and opioid use.
For years, it has flouted municipal taxi regulations and dared local officials to do anything about it.
Chechnya's Moscow-backed president Ramzan Kadyrov denies human rights are routinely flouted in the mainly Muslim region.
When Robert Rauschenberg made his Elemental Paintings in 1953, he flouted conventional expectations of process and materiality.
Mr Trump has flouted norms upheld—at least in theory—by all modern holders of his office.
However the rules have been flouted, with some cases reported of illegal selling and transporting of pigs.
The Southeast Asian nation frequently suffers boat sinkings, with basic safety rules often flouted and vessels overloaded.
In almost all the cases, workers flouted rules requiring an outbound telephone call to confirm the transaction.
The "Normicon Party" favors respect for civility, stable institutions, and ethical codes that generate scorn when flouted.
They said the company flouted its obligation under New York law to offer them rent-stabilized leases.
The House bills flouted his proposals, adding $85033 billion to domestic spending and $17 billion to defense.
They also undermined parliamentary democracy, flouted regional governments, and otherwise set the stage for the Nazi state.
In each case, EPA flouted procedural requirements and never explained the justification for forgoing the rules' benefits.
Laws to protect vulnerable communities such as indigenous groups are poorly implemented and regularly flouted, it said.
Data: SEC; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios The judges made it clear that the deals flouted antitrust law.
" Mouratoglou said 90% of coaches flouted the in-match ban and that chair umpires "don't care much.
Violators of these guidelines included religious and political leaders, he said, who flouted orders to self-quarantine.
Already, the board has flouted PROMESA, impeded consensual negotiations and pushed the commonwealth into a needless bankruptcy.
Trump has flouted many norms, but the question over his taxes has become a sort of touchstone.
She adored her pale blue cellphone, and flouted school rules by keeping it with her in class.
First, Manafort openly flouted the criminal justice system at every step and still got an enormous break.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has similarly flouted Trump's demands to un-recuse himself from Russia-related matters.
Yet President Omar al-Bashir, for one, has flouted them, and fighting and abuses continue in Sudan.
Yet a trip to nearly any shop in New Delhi makes clear how widely the ban is flouted.
Facebook had already been on the defense over how it handled user data and flouted traditional privacy rules.
Guaido had flouted a court-imposed travel ban to visit other Latin American countries to drum up support.
The Republican nominee flouted conservative orthodoxy all night, betting he has little to gain courting those establishment types.
Still, many headlines covering the news flouted these guidelines, focused on the method of death, or his funeral.
Among political actors, norms of decency and probity – strained in the best of times – have been routinely flouted.
Lawmakers are also barred from taking pictures or videos, though Democrats flouted that rule during their sit-in.
Amber Heard recently flouted Instagram's controversial nipple policy with a shirtless photo of her "Aquaman" costar Jason Momoa.
Yet the law is often flouted by tourists, poachers and others, with few held to account, Chandi said.
Both his detractors and his supporters recognize that Trump has flouted countless rules — and revels in doing so.
The Trump administration has flouted the norms of political discourse far more often than any of its opponents.
American officials are investigating whether a much bigger Chinese tech company, Huawei Technologies, also flouted American trade controls.
But it is an effort to hit countries that have flouted European values and norms in the pocketbook.
In recent years, more and more Methodist ministers have flouted the denomination's restrictions and performed same-sex weddings.
Citizens, firms and the government itself have openly flouted the executive order, opting for lower prices over ideology.
Fires are common in India, where building laws and safety norms are often flouted by builders and residents.
President Trump has flouted other separation of powers traditions, so we may be headed toward a constitutional showdown.
However, in his view Nord Stream-2, backed by Gazprom, E.ON, Wintershall, Shell, OMV and Engie, flouted EU rules.
Uber's ride-hailing services often flouted the spirit, and occasionally the letter, of rules governing the hired-car business.
The rejection is the latest instance where the Trump administration has flouted House subpoenas in the Democratic impeachment inquiry.
An impartiality clause that required the president to sever links with any political party (which he flouted) will expire.
But one possible punishment is that the 13 Republicans who flouted O.D.N.I. rules may be barred from entering SCIF.
Earlier on Tuesday, the court said the law flouted people's freedom of expression and was discriminatory against gay people.
Earlier on Tuesday, the court said the law flouted people's freedom of expression and was discriminatory against gay people .
It lost customers when it flouted a New York taxi boycott in protest of President Donald Trump's travel ban.
The flash flooding hit many areas of the country, including housing settlements where town planning regulations are often flouted.
On February 9th the communications minister, Sanae Takaichi, threatened to close television stations that flouted rules on political impartiality.
Mr Trump has flouted Congress over a tax law and urged his administration to resist Congressional requests for information.
The ban on booze, which did not apply to its sale in bars, was flouted by many local stores.
Netflix has consistently flouted conventions in its assault on the TV business and its norms, and accolades have followed.
If this was only about NATO members who have flouted democracy, the list would be too numerous to address.
But the Rahamis flouted the requirement, contending they were exempt from it, and neighbors continued to contact the police.
In large measure it's because Washington started imposing consequences on those who flouted both international and U.S. immigration law.
Gove said stronger measures than 30-pound ($35) fines for people who flouted the new restrictions could be introduced.
Powerful drug trafficking cartels have long flouted gun regulations by smuggling weapons, mainly across the porous border with Paraguay.
Microsoft could be fined up to 4% of its global annual revenue if found to have flouted the law.
But the House managers have emphasized that Trump didn't just ignore his advisers — he flouted all of their advice.
I wonder if the State Department, whose expertise has been flouted since January, even got to vet the speech.
But some have flouted the rules, skimping on maintenance and forcing drivers to maintain schedules that leave them exhausted.
Burundi was condemned internationally in 2015 after President Pierre Nkurunziza flouted term limits to run for a third mandate.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously for a ceasefire -- almost immediately flouted by both the government and rebels.
The lawyers cited four D.C. Circuit decisions that they say have flouted the Supreme Court's holding in Boumediene v.
Friday's call is the starkest example yet of how Trump has flouted diplomatic conventions since he won the Nov.
It was routinely flouted but a tribunal established in 1975 has allowed the Maori to seek redress for historical abuses.
Zenefits co-founder and former CEO Parker Conrad resigned in February amid revelations that the company had flouted insurance regulations.
This month, for example, it approved a $6bn loan to Pakistan, which has often flouted its prescriptions in the past.
Now, the authorities in Beijing either deem their enforcement less of a priority, or are directing that they be flouted.
But, whispers turned into exclamations turned into a crescendo of noise, and some brazenly flouted their cameras and selfie sticks.
He has flouted every norm of public life and then some, pow-wowing with murderous dictators and snubbing close allies.
The European Commission rejected Italy's 2019 budget last month, saying it flouted a previous commitment to lower the country's deficit.
However it said laws and regulations were widely flouted by a series of departments, including police and environmental protection agencies.
UEFA's Club Financial Control Body announced in September it had reopened an investigation into whether PSG had flouted FFP regulations.
Reuters reported that Japanese regulators visited the company's offices to look into whether it flouted rules for handling customer money.
But the state's two main oil and gas companies, Rosneft and Gazprom, both flouted the requirement, announcing far smaller dividends.
Europe learned that its carefully constructed asylum and border rules were no match for migrants who flouted them en masse.
By all accounts, he flouted the hard won rule of law of Macedonia by running his own elicit business enterprise.
MORE and flouted a warning from a senior Obama administration official to stop meddling in foreign affairs before the inauguration.
The Council has sought to hobble North Korea's nuclear weapons program before, but the country has repeatedly flouted those measures.
But Trump has long flouted the rules that Schumer and Pelosi live by, and it has gotten him this far.
Quinton McHale (Borgnine), flouted Navy regulations at every turn and considered the war a chance to enjoy an island vacation.
The rules are now posted in every plaza, but are often ignored or flouted, according to plaza managers and others.
The rules of visual coherence are tested and ultimately upheld, while the laws of physics are flouted with sublime bravado.
In some revealing open-seat races, Democratic voters have also flouted the directives of party leaders and embraced inspiring activists.
Other countries, like Greece — which has official bans that are widely flouted, even by government ministers — have problems with enforcement.
He has said President Obama's Justice Department flouted the will of Congress by failing to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
The decision flouted longstanding FBI traditions of keeping investigations confidential and avoiding politically sensitive announcements close to a presidential election.
A complex set of laws and regulations, often flouted, allows different types of factories to operate according to different standards.
But Mr. Trump has flouted his own lawyer, bragging to people around him that no one can control his actions.
"No other President has flouted the Constitution and power of Congress to conduct oversight to this extent," the report said.
Those edges were apparent during spring training, when Frazier's bushy red hair flouted the Yankees' longstanding policy prohibiting long hair.
Indian laws limit the amount of money a candidate can spend on his campaign, but they are flouted with impunity.
Coming into her own as an artist in the 280s, she flouted the new orthodoxies of Paris's competing avant-gardes.
These tactics, which regularly flouted international law, ultimately broke eastern Aleppo's rebels and led to the mass evacuation last week.
If his positive test is confirmed, Bett will join a growing list of Kenyan athletes to have flouted anti-doping rules.
Thakur flouted the ban by campaigning unofficially anyway, praying at temples where she was surrounded by the press and her followers.
Often, however, the codes were defective: they missed areas vulnerable to malpractice; and were rarely updated, scantily enforced and widely flouted.
By not doing so, the EPA flouted the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending government funds without Congress's approval.
The rule will likely face legal challenges, including claims that the U.S. Labor Department flouted legal requirements for creating new regulations.
"Hillary Clinton flouted the law and set up a private server so she could hide stuff from the public," Conway said.
The usual taboos against criticising the deep state that surrounds the unelected supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are flouted with abandon.
The law was often flouted by entertainment channels and cable operators airing Indian films and soap operas wildly popular in Pakistan.
When he was in control of the company, Durov flouted government requests to shut down pages operated by anti-Putin activists.
North Korea has openly flouted its arsenal of nuclear warheads, while Iran insists its nuclear facilities were for civilian purposes only.
And like on-campus protests, the protesters flouted rules of decorum, decency, and — yes — the norms we hear about so often.
Trump has continually flouted the political establishment, and suggested the broad outlines of a bold alternative vision for restoring American greatness.
That's where, according to the SEC, banks and brokers flouted the requirement to hold enough foreign shares, creating an undue surplus.
Hospitals were once off limits; even in conflicts where the international laws of war were routinely flouted, medical facilities were spared.
But legal experts have said that his long, secretive confinement and lack of access to his own lawyers flouted China's laws.
If you're new to Twitter, or if you've repeatedly flouted its community rules, your rights on the platform would be circumscribed.
Even Trump, radical as he is, flouted Republican orthodoxy by sounding like a populist Democrat on Social Security, Medicare and trade.
Taxi companies, Danish politicians and drivers unions have hammered Uber, complaining that it flouted regulations that taxi companies are subject to.
Trump has flouted every rule of campaigning known to the modern strategist, and his candidacy was roundly mocked at its inception.
My husband, raised in similar circumstances, with similar expectations, somehow flouted conventional notions of what was worth holding onto or jettisoning.
While the rules were often flouted in the past, doing so now has become increasingly difficult, some money transfer agents told Reuters.
Ruling-party lawmakers openly flouted a rule on secret balloting, then assaulted an opposition MP who used her phone to film them.
State attorneys-general could petition the commerce department to revoke a company's charter if they felt those norms were repeatedly being flouted.
Furthermore, if the delegates' will truly were flouted by what Womack did, we'd expect more delegations to walk out like Colorado's did.
Many states have their own rules, which one major company — Uber — may have flouted in its handling of a 2016 security incident.
Drucker always knew she flouted traditional gender categories, but she was able to maintain a level of androgyny until her early 20s.
EU officials this week rejected the government's proposal to inject a rumoured 803bn of capital because it flouted rules around state aid.
In 2012, Mr. Stewart said a new store opened in town that flouted the area's nighttime sensitivities and became a glowing eyesore.
Until 2011, when the Obama Department of Education released guidance outlining sexual assault survivors' rights, schools routinely flouted their Title IX obligations.
Merely 10 weeks into his term, the processes, skills, and institutions Trump flouted as a candidate are breaking him as a president.
But he has stacked his regime with cronies and has brazenly flouted the standards and protocols meant to rein in executive overreach.
Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has flouted those demands, arguing that using publicly available images is the company's First Amendment right.
For decades, multiple presidential administrations did little while China flouted the rules and gained an unfair advantage in the international trade market.
Tony, as his friends called him, flouted conventions, flunked out of Cambridge and used his London studio for portrait sittings and parties.
Already, Trump has flirted with treason, flouted conflict-of-interest rules, bullied dissidents and blown off the advice of seasoned public servants.
He flouted G.O.P. orthodoxy on entitlements, infrastructure spending and, at times, even health care and "culture war" issues like funding Planned Parenthood.
Although ICJ rulings are final and binding, countries have occasionally flouted them, and the court has no formal mechanism to enforce them.
Animal rights advocates say that the journeys are often too long, regulations aren't up to scratch and the rules are often flouted.
But if Hawaii ultimately does decide to embrace decriminalization, it wouldn't be the first time the state has flouted federal drug policy.
Since he has flouted this obligation, lawsuits by individuals and states harmed by the damage he causes may now be in order.
The argument is pretty simple: you can't abide by the terms of a deal that one of your co-signatories has flouted spectacularly.
He has flouted norms, ignored conventional campaign advice, and put forth an unending stream of offensive (in both senses of the word) rhetoric.
Democratic Senator Tom Carper, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment Committee, said the new rule flouted the findings of that task force.
Mr. Piller's evidence proves that pharmaceutical companies have often failed to follow the law while prestigious medical research institutions have routinely flouted it.
As Ruch and others have said, this publicity-seeking criminal crew has flouted the law and disrupted operations at an important federal facility.
China detained 49 people in connection with the blasts, including port and work safety officials, saying that laws and regulations had been flouted.
Flynn perhaps should've held off, but Trump himself flouted the one-president-at-a-time convention constantly, and in much more galling ways.
At the same time, he has flouted the party's ban on personality cults, introduced in 1982 to prevent another episode of Maoist madness.
But access to support services, ranging from legal aid to healthcare, is poor and gender-friendly government guidelines are often flouted, HRW said.
Opponents of the nuclear deal argue that Iran is liable to become another North Korea, which has flouted multiple agreements over the years.
Of all the Army values Mr. Trump has flouted in this campaign — respect, selfless service, personal courage — perhaps the most telling is loyalty.
Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) claims that the agency deliberately flouted federal guidelines in declining to inform the committee of several major data breaches.
The highlights were abundant in a generally strong season, one that either frankly acknowledged a challenging business landscape or predictably flouted commercial concerns.
To gain moral credibility as a partner for peace, the Palestinian leadership just had to utter a promise, a promise it constantly flouted.
That accusation is dismissed in Madrid as yet another affront by politicians who have repeatedly flouted court rulings in their drive toward independence.
It flouted the Justice Department's duty to defend, a solemn duty, and one that goes to the heart of the rule of law.
The special counsel argued that the op-ed flouted a judge's admonition against trying to use the news media to influence the case.
Physical contact between men and women in public is officially forbidden in Iran, but the rules are widely flouted in the larger cities.
Officials at Freetown City Council said there are laws to prevent illegal construction, but these are often flouted or permits obtained through bribery.
Washington argues that the Appellate Body has flouted clear rules and morphed into something else while other WTO members have just stood by.
Yet in doing so he has not only flouted traditional policy-making machinery but, in some cases, opened the way for legal challenges.
A legally binding Security Council resolution, which included a call to halt indiscriminate attacks on civilians and a lifting of sieges, has been flouted.
Daleiden's lawyers then flouted the seal and released new footage, along with a list of names of the people in them on their website.
"I will not be a witness to puffery and prevarication flowing while our Constitution and our laws are disrespectfully and dangerously flouted," Cohen said.
Leaders in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia flouted democratic traditions by expanding or eliminating term limits and co-opted independent institutions with networks of patronage.
Mr. Trump flouted the norms of presidential behavior at the news conference to such an extent that it left many Republicans struggling to respond.
Given the accumulation of all sorts of other ways that Donald Trump has flouted the rule of law, that's just a bridge too far.
Constitutional mandates of affirmative action are constantly flouted, and positive discrimination in university recruitment has similarly been reduced through a new system of hiring.
Those rules were flouted by NATO in March 1999, with its bombing of the former Yugoslavia, forcing Mr. Annan to seek a middle ground.
If you judge their careers by the power they wielded, the conventions they flouted, and the autonomy they achieved, they count as pioneering feminists.
Still, they provide further evidence of how Epstein flouted the legal system and used his money and power to avoid repercussions, according to officials.
The organization's top human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said in a Twitter post this week that Mr. Trump's order flouted international law.
He has flouted transportation and safety regulations, bucked against entrenched competitors and capitalized on legal loopholes and gray areas to gain a business advantage.
" By passing a law allowing for the Catalan referendum, Mr. Rajoy said, the separatists had flouted Spanish law and "invented a new legal order.
Cruz presidential race — a race between a candidate who openly flouted them and a man they despised — by consolidating behind a single "establishment" candidate.
But Iran has flouted the prohibition regularly in the past year-and-a-half, drawing sanctions from the U.S. but also diplomatic cover from Russia.
Instead, it shows how heads of government agencies have flouted tech security rules for years, long before Clinton's email troubles became a heated campaign issue.
In giving priority to peace and democracy rather than holding the past to account, Spain flouted the demands of what is now called transitional justice.
President Trump has often flouted conservative ideology by interfering in the private sector, via his tariff policies and his frequent tweets lambasting major U.S. corporations.
"We will be investigating how the orders were flouted and who was responsible for the decision to go ahead with the firework display," Chandy said.
British regulators are still assessing Staley's actions, and could punish him if it finds he flouted strict new UK rules on how to treat whistleblowers.
The campaign has so far largely flouted traditional politicking, wagering instead on robust on-the-ground organizing to bring new voters into the political process.
We also whether Peyton Manning may have flouted NFL rules — in addition to flouting good taste — with his infamous Budweiser marketing during the Super Bowl.
He was going to prove that a Northeastern Republican who flouted certain right-wing orthodoxies could travel a somewhat centrist path to the White House.
U.S. sources have said they are confident the WTO will find the EU flouted its decisions, while the European side has called U.S. accusations "empty".
It is not only that he is dogmatically anti-Muslim and anti-gay, but has repeatedly flouted federal laws in defense of unabashedly bigoted beliefs.
The AP's report notes that the law preventing New York City landlords from submitting falsified construction permits is "often flouted with little to no consequences."
Whether it is with his taxes, his pronouncements or his willingness to raise money and create a sophisticated organization, Mr. Trump has gleefully flouted convention.
Prosecutors had cast Mr. Percoco as a figure of almost unmatched power, who — until the trial — flouted state ethics rules and federal laws with impunity.
The United States ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who has repeatedly sought to convince fellow diplomats that Iran has flouted the embargo, denounced the Russian veto.
The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions against Iran, while Tehran has flouted Washington's warnings by shipping weapons to Shiite allies in the Middle East.
This marks the latest attempt by Zenefits to regain its footing after it was found to have flouted state insurance laws and lacked proper controls.
But for every norm Trump has broken and every rule of politics he has flouted, no one can look at him as DOA in 2020.
Even for a campaign that has long courted controversy and flouted norms of political discourse, Trump's past two weeks have been ridiculously over the top.
Trump has regularly flouted Twitter rules with almost no repercussions, with Twitter claiming that the president's tweets are inherently newsworthy and therefore protected under ambiguous exemptions.
The company flouted trade bans to Iran and North Korea, then it lied about them and tried to cover its tracks before finally admitting its guilt.
Donald Trump is revolutionary in that he not only has evolved the use of those same tools, but because he has flouted the rules of engagement.
The U.N. Security Council met last week to discuss the test, which the United States, Britain and France said flouted U.N. restrictions on Tehran's military program.
In a lengthy statement after the court's announcement of the July 12 ruling date, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Manila's approach flouted international law.
I can assure you that this, too, is flouted, since "Trutherbot Spawn" sent me a lovely and explicit GIF to illustrate his opinion of my behavior.
He has flouted the advice of experts of all stripes in order to engender the kinds of crises that he believes will resonate with his base.
But opponents said the sudden funeral flouted the legal process, because the court's decision does not become final for 15 days, leaving time for further appeal.
It said it had asked to visit Calvey multiple times, but had not been granted access, something it said flouted consular rules between the two countries.
Guaido flouted a travel ban to tour Latin American countries to muster support for his plan for a transition government ahead of free and fair elections.
Though the Taylor Law was often flouted, it provided for painful penalties, including hefty fines and loss of a union's automatic dues deductions from employees' paychecks.
The country has deployed thousands of troops at checkpoints in main cities to limit movement, saying many residents had flouted earlier calls to stay at home.
His commission called for Trump to enforce the Mental Health Parity Act, a federal law routinely flouted by insurers that requires equal coverage for drug treatment.
Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt of court after he flouted an order to stop detaining people his office suspected of being undocumented immigrants.
The government's own study last year showed that virtually all makers of diesel cars had flouted emissions limits, but Ms. Merkel's ministers did not impose penalties.
And 42 percent of the government's 100 top suppliers flouted the legislation last year, found a study published in March by business consultancies Sancroft and Tussell.
An investigation by the Indian government in 2015 found that Volkswagen had flouted local pollution limits and the company was forced to recall 323,700 cars reut.
Over the past year, the Democratic presidential candidate has been haunted by her email setup, which critics worry posed a security risk and flouted transparency laws.
But during earlier episodes of heavy pollution, factories in Hebei Province flouted regulations aimed at reducing pollution, and they needed to be "strictly punished," Greenpeace said.
An early scene sets out rules and procedure — finger snaps instead of applause; no debating in the designated smoking area — which are subsequently tested and flouted.
This didn't quite make sense to me — and of course, throughout the history of Trek, the Prime Directive has been flouted often as a plot device.
So when Trump defied every poll by winning the election, and when Britain flouted every prediction by voting for Brexit, it rattled us with uncertainty and distrust.
The organization wasn't happy about it, as it posted a series of critical tweets stating that the aspiring bubble runner, Reza Baluchi, had flouted its safety orders.
Lamps Plus and business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that the lower court ruling flouted federal law and Supreme Court precedents favoring arbitration.
This time, however, the Chinese flagrantly flouted international law, and unlawfully seized US property while possibly endangering the safety of US military personnel on the high seas.
If found to have flouted American sanctions, Turkish banks may be barred from doing international business, says Atilla Yesilada of Global Source Partners, a firm of analysts.
Sonia Rykiel, 86, a French fashion designer who flouted haute couture conventions and created chic, ready-to-wear clothes worn by generations of women on the go.
White arrives as a self-styled "minimal-impact warrior" and "turd nanny" bent on cleaning up after hikers who have flouted the rigorous pack-it-out rule.
After dozens of dispensaries brazenly flouted the new rules, the city in 2016 began fining transgressors, issuing 3,353 tickets amounting to more than $3 million in fines.
At a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday, the president flouted the pretense that support for the judge could coexist with authentic concern for victims of sexual assault.
The killing of General Suleimani at the country's international airport plainly flouted that country's sovereignty, enraging many Iraqis who had previously welcomed American troops on their soil.
And Otto, the self-driving trucking start-up founded by Mr. Levandowski and acquired by Uber in August, has flouted state laws in Nevada in the past.
And if the Federal Reserve is mad at you because you've flouted them in one way or another, you know, you're in a big, big, big doghouse.
A high-profile Royal Commission inquiry into finance sector misconduct has encouraged banks to tighten their approvals processes amid accusations that they have flouted responsible lending laws.
Employees routinely flouted rules and regulations by making oral promises to customers that differed from the terms of the voluminous contracts they signed when making a purchase.
The New York Times reported this week that Trump's unilateral action flouted WTO rules because the United States did not first seek to adjudicate through the organization.
As the Trump administration has regularly flouted House Democrats subpoenas, some members have urged leadership to revive inherent contempt to make sure the administration takes them seriously.
At the Royal College of Art in London, where she went on to work part-time, she flouted regulations by having a steamy affair with a male student.
"It's a quiet effort to make Trump conform to White House decision-making norms he's flouted without making him feel shackled or out of the loop," Politico wrote.
Some human rights groups and trade unions have voiced concerns that a lack of financial penalties for companies who flouted Australia's anti-slavery law was a missed opportunity.
With teams of volunteers manning corners to shame would-be shirkers into parking their cars, and police out in force to slap on fines, few flouted the ban.
Congressional Republicans have debased our politics, assaulted the truth, ignored vital processes, lied to the American people, endorsed immorality and flouted reality like no party in modern times.
They willfully flouted the rules, even going so far as to affect a form of speech where the letter "r," being too reminiscent of the revolution, was omitted.
Germany's cities have for years flouted Europe's clean air rules, prompting environmental groups to sue local governments in an attempt to force bans of some heavily polluting vehicles.
"While the FBI has made their decision, it won't change the fact that Secretary Clinton flouted oversight and transparency norms by using a private email server," said Sen.
Rosenstein ultimately authored a controversial memo outlining the ways Comey had flouted Justice Department protocols leading up to the 2016 election but did not mention the Russia probe.
There is plenty of evidence the Chinese have flouted intellectual-property rights and cybersecurity laws and made it improperly difficult for foreign companies to enter into their markets.
That refusal to cooperate with a panel created by the Human Rights Council flouted a core requirement for membership in the group, the world's top human rights body.
Hong Kong came to a virtual standstill on Saturday amid a shutdown of the entire subway system, although masked protesters openly flouted the mask ban at scattered gatherings.
The Volkswagen case has focused attention on the degree to which nearly all carmakers in Europe built diesel cars that flouted emissions rules in one way or another.
In Washington, scarcely a handful of Republicans have stood up to President Trump, even when he has flouted party orthodoxy on issues like trade, immigration and the deficit.
In Washington, scarcely a handful of Republicans have stood up to President Trump, even when he has flouted party orthodoxy on issues like trade, immigration and the deficit.
Under French law, a defendant can on the first day of a trial raise objections to the case going ahead on grounds that the constitution has been flouted.
After that, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel will put them through tests to see whether they can be easily flouted by people seeking to cross the border.
Rosenstein wrote a memo outlining ways Comey had flouted Justice Department protocols leading up to the 2016 election and Trump initially used the memo to justify firing Comey.
The U.S. has flouted World Trade Organization rules by ignoring evidence offered by Chinese companies and has treated them unfairly because of their state-owned-enterprise status, Wang said.
Though this was plainly the case, it flouted the country's bizarre Statistics Act, whereby no figure may be disseminated without verification or publication by the official organs of state.
Michigan and Florida had flouted the Democratic National Committee's nominating schedule, and their delegates were not allocated until the DNC rules committee met in the last week of May.
It was important also when a regional power such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded a smaller neighbor, or when it flouted international norms to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Rosenstein penned a memo detailing how Comey flouted department protocols last year by announcing his own conclusions from the Hillary Clinton email investigation without authorization from DOJ higher-ups.
These latest examples follow a handful of ghastly spending packages earlier this year that flouted budget caps and all principles of fiscal sanity as they passed in quick succession.
Trump has repeatedly flouted that standard -- whether in his pressure campaign on Justice over the "spy" story or Giuliani's recent insistence that a president cannot be subpoenaed or indicted.
They said the budget plan, as submitted by Scholz, flouted pledges to ensure that Germany's development aid and defense spending as a percentage of economic output did not shrink.
That particular provision was repeatedly flouted on a recent afternoon outside the Thrifty Redemption Center in Borough Park, Brooklyn, one of the largest bottle redemption centers in the city.
Part of Warhol's allure in 2019 is his having flouted so many barriers — the strictures in what then constituted fine art and those of American society — with heroic chutzpa.
Such a proposition has no support within Ukraine's political class — no one trusts Russia, which flouted the 85033 Budapest Memorandum and the 1997 Treaty on Friendship recognizing Ukraine's border.
A new law banning "bump stocks" could still be flouted, of course, but it seems like a plausible extension of the principle that our machine-gun laws already enshrine.
In 2009, the government promised consumers that if they found a product that flouted food safety laws, they could win 10 times the value of that product in compensation.
Another group of parents, and some of the school's teachers, support Ms. Garg, saying that she has tried to bring order to a school that long flouted department rules.
"The European Union has publicly glorified the rioters' abuses and has flouted the Hong Kong police's self-defense measures to defend their lives against their aggressors," the embassy said.
NGO representatives described the ensuing trial as a "circus" that flagrantly flouted the most basic judicial standards, underscoring that the case was nothing more than a political show trial.
Their efforts undermined the existing policy of President Barack Obama and flouted a warning from a senior Obama administration official to stop meddling in foreign affairs before the inauguration.
So while there is some judicial and military precedent forbidding states from leaving, we also don't have to look far to imagine a scenario where a state flouted federal supremacy.
Goldwater, it's worth noting, is the last best example of a firebrand conservative that flouted party values and was the subject of much speculation surrounding his fitness for the office.
The authorities are also cracking down on child-care centres and yeshivas (religious schools) that have flouted a ban on attendance by unvaccinated children that the city issued in December.
Earlier this month, Belarus accused Russia of trying to restore a formal border zone between the two countries, a move it said flouted agreements on freedom of movement and trade.
Mining has indeed brought in $120 million in government taxes since 2012 as well, only in some cases the industry has flouted environmental, legal, and public health regulations and recommendations.
But Judicial Watch is not satisfied, arguing that the FBI's investigation was focused on whether Clinton unlawfully transmitted classified information through the server — not whether she flouted record-keeping laws.
The bride asked her to help her choose a dress ("something more casual than the full-on traditional wedding gown"), and the groom flouted convention by wearing a white suit.
And, break them is precisely what Kylie Jenner did at the 69th annual Met Gala when she flouted the event's strict ban on social media to take a bathroom selfie.
Donald J. Trump flouted a rule set by Fox News during Thursday night's debate by conversing with his campaign manager during a commercial break, according to two rival campaign officials.
Trump flouted long-standing convention among presidential candidates when he refused to release his tax returns on the campaign trail two years ago — the first such refusal since Richard Nixon.
Mexico's presidency moved against two state governments, saying they had flouted federal anti-corruption laws, setting the scene for a possible conflict with two outgoing governors tarnished by graft accusations.
A Florida pastor who refused to stop holding crowded church services was arrested after officials said he flouted emergency orders against public gatherings to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
An Australian gaming regulator in August said it would investigate Melco's planned purchase in Crown following media reports that Crown had flouted rules to lure big Chinese gamblers to Australia.
"This is an unusual and upsetting case where license conditions for home dog boarding were flouted," Vikki Allwood, a senior animal welfare officer with the Council, said after the sentencing.
Public schools are required to educate children with disabilities in regular classrooms as much as possible, but according to a federal investigation, the Yonkers school system routinely flouted that rule.
The isolated nation flouted its nuclear ambitions again Friday in the face of international resistance, launching an intercontinental ballistic missile that may have the ability to reach the United States.
It is the brilliance of Mr. Day — and let's generalize to say of British men's fashion — that any accepted version of good taste is axiomatically considered something to be flouted.
Uber has been a lightning rod because of its aggressive chief executive, Travis Kalanick, who has flouted rules and regulations to turn the company into a nearly $70 billion behemoth.
He was slow to issue fines when some yeshivas flouted health department orders to bar unvaccinated children from classrooms, even as a measles outbreak took hold in Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
That's where the "anxieties" O'Brien mentions come in; mainstream American society just wasn't prepared for women who flouted traditional gender roles and sought entrance into male-dominated positions of power.
That's about a third of the size it was a year ago, when it ousted its founding CEO, Parker Conrad, over revelations that it flouted state regulations for selling health insurance.
Of course, Mayweather publicly flouted the boycott and dropped thousands of dollars at Gucci on Monday night ... despite calls from stars like T.I. and Spike Lee to stop supporting the brand.
He said the United States had flouted nuclear and chemical weapons treaties, saying Moscow had diligently complied with the same pacts only to be repeatedly let down by the United States.
"They were arrested by police and interrogated under conditions that flouted fundamental rights, before they were incarcerated and later released without explanation," the SNPNC said in a statement on its website.
He says the ban impinges on his freedom - a feeling echoed by many Czechs including President Milos Zeman, a smoker who has flouted other nations' smoking laws while on state visits.
ClientEarth, whose campaigning successes include exposing Britain's breach of EU air quality legislation, said its research found the aid flouted EU rules and the plants did not qualify for such help.
Instead, the last few months show just how easily restrictions on free speech can be flouted at home while being twisted to serve the ideological purposes of straight-up autocrats abroad.
The fact that it openly flouted Facebook and Instagram's rules for more than a year so it could misappropriate user data is a remarkable revelation — and unlikely to be the last.
The report, released Thursday, called Comey's actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation "extraordinary and insubordinate" and flouted the department's norms, but concluded that Comey was not motivated by political bias.
Which is why a new spot from the team behind the Lower East Side's Attaboy has flouted many of the elements that speakeasy lovers generally cherish—elaborate recipes, elusive reservations, waistcoats.
Under EU rules, if the European Commission believes sanctions imposed by the bloc may be being flouted, it can raise the issue with member states which are responsible for their enforcement.
In these augmented reality presentations of his costumes, you can examine, close up, his eye for detail, how he flouted gender and social norms, and his encompassing vision for his work.
For all the ways Mr. Trump has defied and flouted the norms of his office, many policies that he has approved are downright ordinary by the standards of modern Republican administrations.
The prime minister did not inform his cabinet or seek its approval before making plans to negotiate personally with Hitler — an action that flouted the conventions of the British governmental system.
The renewal Trump has in mind for 2020 would underline how he has engineered a sharp redirection of American foreign policy values and often flouted the customs of the presidency itself.
Trump has flouted some norms by, for instance, wearing stiletto heels while traveling to a hurricane disaster zone, she has brought some conventionality to a White House that often eschews it.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has widened a crackdown against Jehovah's Witnesses, jailing six adherents of the Christian denomination for extremism in a move rights activists said was unjust and flouted religious freedom.
The company, officials found, flouted the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, a federal law that protects active duty military members, requiring lenders to reduce interest rates on any loans to 6 percent.
Manafort broke the bail terms Jackson set, flouted the gag order she set, tampered with witnesses while out on bail and then broke the plea agreement she had accepted by lying.
Leeds owner Radrizzani's Eleven Sports Network had flouted that directive earlier this season with its Italian Serie A coverage and Spanish La Liga matches, but has since relented to honor the rule.
The European Union granted the quota after the WTO's appeals body ruled in 1998 that an EU ban on beef treated with any of six specific growth-promoting hormones flouted WTO rules.
Shareholders have been calling for change due to poor earnings results and new allegations that the company flouted food safety rules sparking export bans to be imposed on some of its facilities.
The U.S. embassy said in a statement it had asked multiple times to visit Calvey in custody but had not received permission, which it said flouted consular rules between the two countries.
In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that "closely-held businesses" such as Hobby Lobby, a chain of crafts stores, could have religious beliefs and thus be exempt from laws that flouted them.
It's no secret that the ride-hail company, now nearing seven years since it was founded, regularly flouted local regulations when it was scaling its business across the U.S. and the world.
The committee also plans to file a lawsuit early next week to enforce its subpoena of McGahn, who flouted the committee's subpoena to testify in May under direction from the White House.
As a candidate, Trump often gleefully flouted political norms like releasing tax returns and health records, and it's entirely possible he might treat the ethics of executive appointments with a similar disregard.
But a parliamentary report documenting the deaths of 48 Ugandans in the Middle East since January - 34 by committing suicide - shows the ban is being flouted, sparking calls for more effective action.
The challengers in those cases have argued the administration's decision flouted notice and comment rulemaking requirements, was arbitrary and capricious and denied so-called Dreamers equal protection and due process of law.
During the two years she lived there under Islamic State rule, Jubbouri said she secretly informed Iraqi security forces about the militants' movements, and flouted their order that women veil their faces.
Most of the factories that have flouted labor laws - which require employers to pay workers their full salary upfront - are small or medium sized and often fly under the radar, he added.
TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania's government deployed the army to enforce a strict 40-hour curfew starting on Saturday to fight the coronavirus after people widely flouted previous measures aimed at stemming its spread.
Interfax cited a source familiar with the situation on Friday as saying that Smolenkov's family holiday in Montenegro flouted rules at the time that banned Russian officials from visiting the Balkan country.
In his top-floor office in Mayfair, a ritzy district of London, the man who did more than anyone to make Britain's public-relations industry famous (and infamous) flouted the smoking ban.
Trump also flouted protocols at home, making a mockery of his necessity to advise Congress of military action by writing on Twitter that his tweets would serve as official notification of strikes.
Sowore's continued detention despite being granted bail has led to criticism of Buhari's administration and allegations that human rights have been flouted in this case and those of other high-profile figures.
Turkey has dismissed Russian accusations that its actions in Idlib have flouted de-escalation agreements with Russia and Iran, and said it would take military action if diplomatic efforts with Moscow fail.
Under Mr. Kalanick, Uber flouted rules and regulations to bring its ride-summoning service to hundreds of cities, prized growth above all else, and often turned a blind eye to corporate misbehavior.
In a letter to Trump on Wednesday, 20 House Democrats demanded that the president move forward with implementing the sanctions and requested an explanation for why the administration had flouted the Oct.
After a legislative process in which they've so often flouted congressional norms and regular order, GOP leaders promising to resurrect the conference committee as their next step may seem a bit odd.
Monday's announcement shows how toxic politically the Ibiza scandal remains while many questions linked to it remain unanswered, including whether political parties have flouted party financing laws, as Strache suggested in the video.
But according to a new complaint by Chicago's lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, the attorney general flouted Judge Leinenweber's injunction and reimposed virtually the same unlawful, unconstitutional conditions on 2018 grants.
The political hurricane that he whipped up battered Democrats and his own party, ripping through the corridors of power on Capitol Hill, as he flouted countless assumptions on how a president should behave.
The vote came after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and CEO Sheryl Sandberg flouted a subpoena compelling them to appear before parliament at an international committee hearing on big data and democracy on Tuesday.
For every Trump attempt to cater to Republican policy orthodoxy (for instance, by releasing a Supreme Court "shortlist" of solidly conservative judges), he's not only flouted the party line but flaunted that flouting.
Uber believes the law is unfair and impractical — the company has challenged it in European court — while taxi unions say the government hasn't done enough to enforce it, and that it's regularly flouted.
The ministry of culture and communication says it's "nearly impossible to correctly write French" on keyboards sold in the country today, meaning that the language's strict grammatical rules are being flouted more regularly.
The Constitutional Court ruled this year that Zuma flouted the law by ignoring an order to repay some of the 250 million rand in state funds spent on improvements to his private home.
And conservatives have given Page 22019 hours to comply with a subpoena that she flouted on Wednesday morning, either by appearing behind closed doors on Friday or alongside Strzok in public on Thursday.
And conservatives have given Page 28503 hours to comply with a subpoena that she flouted on Wednesday morning, either by appearing behind closed doors on Friday or alongside Strzok in public on Thursday.
"Politicians have shamelessly and repeatedly flouted the will of voters with their partisan manipulation of the election process," Alora Thomas-Lundborg, staff attorney with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, said in a statement.
North Korea flouted that warning on Thursday by firing the two Musudan missiles from sites near Wonsan, a port on North Korea's east coast, the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement.
But when you've flouted TV conventions, as Netflix long has, suddenly crowing about ratings -- as the streaming service did with "Bird Box," the apocalyptic movie starring Sandra Bullock -- has risked opening Pandora's box.
Trump said Iran had flouted the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which saw international sanctions on the regime dropped in return for Iran curbing its nuclear program.
Britain's top 100 suppliers accounted for 9.3 billion pounds worth of state contracts in 2018, yet 30% of the money went to firms that flouted the anti-slavery law, according to the study.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea flouted United Nations resolutions on Thursday by launching two ballistic missiles toward the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, the South Korean military said in a statement.
Drawing back the stage curtains of the unconscious, he shows us a world where laws are flouted and norms are trashed, where senseless violence is rampant and the id has the upper hand.
In one school commencement ceremony after another, newly minted graduates have flouted the hymn, even at the risk of jeopardizing their job prospects in a market increasingly dominated by firms from the mainland.
A looming question since January 3073 has been whether the justices would become a check on Trump, who has flouted legal norms, criticized federal judges, and revealed disdain for the rule of law.
And having flouted the party establishment throughout the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump now appears determined to go his own way in office, guided by personal chemistry and the opinions of his family members.
"The Office of Government Ethics has an impossible job under this administration because President Trump has ignored its advice, undermined its authority and openly flouted ethics rules," Mr. Cummings said in a statement.
But in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Montana, Mr. Bullock and his administration alleged that the Trump administration had flouted proper government process in eliminating the disclosure requirements.
To them, Mr. Schiller in effect had created a shelter of his own and blatantly flouted various ordinances, for instance by not having enough exits from the basement in case of a fire.
Zuma met with the most senior members of the ANC, known as "The Top Six", late on Thursday to inform them of the reshuffle but flouted accepted procedure in deciding not to consult them.
WITH the ink still drying on the Singapore declaration, President Donald Trump was asked why the North Koreans were any likelier to honour its terms than all the previous nuclear agreements they have flouted.
The state's High Court had earlier mandated that fireworks must be stored more than 100 meters (yards) from temples - orders that were flouted at the Paravoor temple, said Loknath Behera, a top police official.
South Africa's decision can be traced back to visit a year ago by Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir when Pretoria flouted its obligations to arrest him under an ICC warrant for alleged war crimes.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's business hub of Shanghai has slacked off in efforts to improve the environment, levying fines too small to deter polluters, hundreds of whom have flouted closure orders, authorities said on Wednesday.
That convention is widely flouted, including by European countries, whose leaders were once the driving force behind such a push at the end of World War II, when Europeans were the ones seeking refuge.
A ceasefire signed in the Belarus capital of Minsk in 2015 halted the worst of the bloodshed but it is routinely flouted and both sides accuse the other of being an obstacle to peace.
For as passionate and principled as Rubio fashioned himself, the answer showed he was still bound by the depressing orthodoxy of politics and partisanship — the very things that Trump has flouted to such success.
TIRANA, March 21 (Reuters) - Albania's government deployed the army to enforce a strict 40-hour curfew starting on Saturday to fight the coronavirus after people widely flouted previous measures aimed at stemming its spread.
But calls for residents to stay indoors were flouted by some -- so the response was ramped up last week when a Defense Law was activated by the Prime Minister, Omar Razzaz, with royal decree.
Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director who has been chosen to replace Tillerson, is inheriting a building full of patriots inhabited by the queasy conviction that their values are being flouted by the president himself.
Then the discovery of a North Korean highly enriched uranium program, that flouted the spirit of an earlier Clinton administration deal to halt North Korea's plutonium program sent relations back into the deep freeze.
Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, has bristled at Gowdy's refusal to subpoena the Trump administration for documents and testimony, even when the White House has flouted bipartisan demands.
Admittedly, it's an impossible job, given that the choice of which drugs are prohibited wasn't made rationally and they're left to enforce laws that are routinely flouted by nearly half of the adult population.
The suit seeks unspecified "economic" and "punitive" damages from the companies, and alleges the companies routinely flouted the law because they knew their profits would outweigh the cost of penalties imposed by the government.
On July 6th the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that South Africa flouted its duty to international law when it failed to arrest Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, when he visited in 2015.
Press pool There's been a lot of talk about how President-elect Trump has flouted convention by abandoning the press pool, the small group of journalists from different news organizations assigned to cover his movements.
Princess Kate, in a bold maneuver only a royal mom would attempt to pull off, flouted the rules and went with an all-white look for the family's much-anticipated playdate in Canada on Thursday.
It has flouted so many subpoenas, and played so many games with redactions and deadlines, that the entire House GOP united last week to vote for the resolution demanding submission to Congress's requests for documents.
" Critics have skewered white evangelicals for their steadfast support of Trump, a man that author Ben Howe says has flouted Christian values and "lived most of his life actively, and unapologetically, in opposition to them.
The efforts of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to shepherd Republicans through an orderly primary season, without the positions that cost them support from Latinos and young voters in 211, were ignored or flouted.
That was Duquette's message in 2250, when he visited Nevada in support of a rancher named Kevin Borba, who had repeatedly and progressively flouted rules governing the treatment of wild horses on his grazing allotment.
They've also ignored relevant information from people who did, presented obvious misinformation as fact to justify keeping the whole thing going, and flouted House rules and traditions by keeping their Democratic colleagues in the dark.
Mr Moore tried variously to argue that the Supreme Court's decision did not encompass Alabama; that the lower federal court had no authority over his own; and thus that he had not flouted federal law.
The EU competition regulator said an exemption in the scheme for interest income earned by offshore subsidiaries between 2013 and 2018 - which had been criticised by tax campaigners as a major loophole - flouted EU laws.
The ministers said the UK government's approach to leaving the EU so far flouted the principle of devolution, including by preparing a series of position papers concerning Wales and Scotland without consulting the devolved administrations.
The challenges will be taken to courts that have shown hostility towards Trump in the past, such as the federal district court in Hawaii that flouted precedent to block the implementation of his travel ban.
Multinationals - ranging from oil and gas firms to mining groups, industrial manufacturers and banks - are concerned that unforeseen changes in government policies could lead to business disruption, flouted deals and unrest in their growth markets.
Proponents of sanctions, or "boa constrictors" as I affectionately call them, were sounding less triumphant by September, when Kim Jong Un flouted the UNSC by carrying out a fifth nuclear test -- the largest to date.
John Campbell, the commander of American troops in Afghanistan at the time, concluded that some service members had flouted the rules of engagement and violated the law of armed conflict, Centcom said in a statement.
By routinely ignoring reports of sexual harassment, Uber clearly flouted federal civil rights law—but, because the company made all their employees sign forced arbitration agreements, none of the victims can take them to court.
He's reckless actions violated Chinese regulations, crossed a bright line that dozens of countries have written into their laws, flouted nearly every rule of medical ethics, and exposed two girls to grave and unknowable risks.
And all the while, Twitter's rules and policies were frequently flouted by presidential candidate and now President-elect Donald Trump, whose behavior on the site often fits a pattern of harassment Twitter has banned before.
Although ICE's Performance-Based National Detention Standards say transgender detainees already receiving hormone therapy before being taken into custody should have continued access to their medication, these standards are not mandatory and are often flouted.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister called on Israeli authorities to exercise restraint after more than 40 Palestinians were killed on Monday and said the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem flouted international law.
He later pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about the conversations, which undermined existing American policy and flouted a warning from a senior Obama administration official to stop meddling in foreign affairs before the inauguration.
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In an interview with several European newspapers in June, the French leader urged Eastern Europe not to treat the bloc as a "supermarket," and warned that governments would face consequences if they flouted regional values.
Lai engaged in political opportunism and careerism, exchanged power for sex with several women, and flouted frugality rules by frequently accepting entertainment from private business owners in private clubs and high-end restaurants, it said.
But legal experts say pursuing that goal while the companies were under a form of government control called conservatorship flouted the law that led to the rescue, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 20133.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidency on Monday moved against two state governments, saying they had flouted federal anti-corruption laws, setting the scene for a possible conflict with two outgoing governors tarnished by graft accusations.
" Whitaker continued in unusually harsh language that Germany "has refused to take any responsibility for failing to extradite him to the United States, has flouted their treaty obligations and has undermined the rule of law.
I filed a Nevada Open Records Act request to find out more, and in due course published a story, here on Backchannel, detailing how Levandowski had indeed flouted Nevada's rules — actions a state official called illegal.
Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that the United States had flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China would defend its interests, China's state media reported.
"It makes Bolivia a country subservient to the whim of President Morales and where the rule of law is flouted," tweeted Carlos Mesa, a former president, who is the most popular leader of Bolivia's feeble opposition.
They named it for a Japanese term meaning "ultimate," reinforcing the rule that small, cute oysters must be named like manga characters (a rule dutifully obeyed by Shibumi, Chunu, and others, yet flouted by Sea Cow).
SHANGHAI, April 12 (Reuters) - China's business hub of Shanghai has slacked off in efforts to improve the environment, levying fines too small to deter polluters, hundreds of whom have flouted closure orders, authorities said on Wednesday.
A convention negotiated in 1903 obliged countries to report disease outbreaks to each other, only to be flouted shortly after by the Italian authorities, who bullied and bribed doctors and journalists to deny a cholera outbreak.
Yet, at the same time, the basic protections enshrined by the refugee convention of 1951 are flouted, including by countries in Europe, which are now offering financial incentives to Turkey to keep asylum-seekers at bay.
Turning to Monday's controversial use of state aid in the rescue of two Italian banks, Constancio denied that the situation represented any of the parties involved receiving beneficial treatment which flouted existing European Union (EU) rules.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea flouted United Nations resolutions on Friday by firing what appeared to be a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, the South Korean military said.
Venus Williams flouted numerous traffic laws as she sped through an intersection and caused a crash that resulted in horrendous injuries to a married couple, killing the husband ... this according to a new wrongful death lawsuit.
Will instructions to destroy incomplete manuscripts be obeyed, as may soon happen with Edward Albee, who left behind drafts of an unfinished project when he died in 2016, or flouted, as in the case of Nabokov?
In reality, Japan always flouted the moratorium, using a loophole that allowed "scientific research" to continue slaughtering thousands of minke, fin and sperm whales far from its shores and selling their meat on the domestic market.
For years, Mr. Orban has been engaged in a battle with Brussels as he flouted its norms and rules over a variety of issues, including migration policy and threats to the independence of Hungary's judicial system.
Ms. Kearl speculated that employers are aware of this legal liability and try to train employees to avoid it, even though the recent surge of complaints about such harassment shows that many men flouted these constraints.
The laws flouted "a clear European consensus about the recognition of individuals' right to openly identify themselves as gay, lesbian or any other sexual minority, and to promote their own rights and freedoms," the judges wrote.
Trump has flouted or broken almost every norm that exists, and, according to watchdogs, several aides have violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while they are on the job.
Uber has long flouted laws and regulations to gain an edge against entrenched transportation providers, a modus operandi that has helped propel it into more than 70 countries and to a valuation close to $70 billion.
Amnesty International and others have documented endless laws, policies and individual cases in Saudi Arabia where the government and its officials have similarly flouted people's right to life, equality, justice and practically any other human right.
It has also prompted questions over whether any rules were flouted and thrown the spotlight on funds that invest in less-liquid assets like unlisted companies while allowing investors to take their money out with ease.
The Commission last week rejected Italy's budget, saying it flouted a previous commitment to lower the deficit and would push up the country's debt, already the second highest in the euro zone as a proportion of GDP.
To be taken seriously by Germany and other euro zone countries, Macron has to map out a credible path for getting France's finances permanently in line with EU rules, after his predecessors flouted them for a decade.
Putin said the decision to bar Russian athletes, including those who had not tested positive for any banned substances, was a vivid manifestation "of how the humanistic foundations of sport and Olympism are shamelessly flouted by politics".
Recent incidents of people developing serious complications from their treatments, including blindness and infections from contaminated stem cells, have led to the agency going after and even shutting down the worst offenders that have flouted FDA guidelines.
The ruling came during a hearing in federal court in Washington Tuesday that addressed prosecutors' accusations that Stone had flouted the court's orders and broke his bail terms by posting on Instagram over the past several months.
The European Union's executive said it flouted a commitment to lower the deficit and did not guarantee a reduction in the country's debt, the second highest in the euro zone as a proportion of gross domestic product.
And in Memphis, Tennessee, three women and girls—all assaulted by the same serial rapist, who operated for at least a decade—claimed in 2014 that the city's failure to test their rape kits flouted the Constitution.
This is the calm before the storm, according to the European Union's data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, who says the law is being systematically flouted on a number of fronts right now — and that enforcement is coming.
During his nearly 30-year stint at Massey, Blankenship broke a violent labor strike, devoured competitors, bought a state court of appeals seat, normalized the use of mountaintop removal mining, and regularly flouted environmental and workplace standards.
As I grew older and started feeling alienated from my white classmates, I gravitated toward athletes who, in some way, flouted the white, stoic traditions of American sports — Allen Iverson, Ken Griffey Jr., Rasheed Wallace, Pedro Martinez.
The warnings come as Instagram tries to tackle malicious behavior on its platform in the wake of a series of Business Insider investigations into companies that have illicitly scraped users' data and flouted Instagram's rules with impunity.
Liu He, one of China's newly appointed vice premiers, told Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday that the U.S. has flouted trade rules with its inquiry into intellectual property, and that China will defend its interests.
SAN FRANCISCO — Zenefits investors are getting a larger piece of the troubled human resources start-up because they overpaid for their stakes, unaware that the company's sales teams flouted regulations to enhance growth, Zenefits announced on Thursday.
In Mr. Trump's five-day confrontation with a military family, Republicans have found the most agonizing test yet of their relationship with a candidate who has flouted political conventions around religion, race, gender and now military service.
The company had admitted in the civil case that it had for years failed to report thousands of suspicious opioid orders from pharmacies, many of which flouted order limits and catered to doctors who ran pill mills.
President Trump has repeatedly flouted the independence of the Justice Department by calling for an investigation of his long-vanquished 2016 election foe; has he finally found an attorney general nominee who might go down that path?
These sites, reliant on animation and Flash's underlying ActionScript language, were the kind that excited creatives, ready to embrace an artistic medium, but frustrated usability experts, who would rail against the way the sites flouted basic convention.
Over the course of the parallel congressional and criminal investigations into potential collusion between members of the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, many have watched in awe as witnesses have flouted or avoided congressional subpoenas without consequence.
Breeding tigers and trading them and their parts is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but this treaty is widely flouted in Asia because of poor law-enforcement and high demand for tigers.
MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani has flouted an international travel ban and flown to Moscow for talks with Russia's military and political leadership on Syria and deliveries of Russian missiles, sources said on Friday.
PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - France's foreign minister called on Israeli authorities to exercise restraint after more than 40 Palestinians were killed on Monday and said the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem flouted international law.
During his campaign, Mr. Trump flouted traditional foreign policy by praising President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and suggesting that if elected he might be willing to ease sanctions levied against Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
In the weeks ahead, the story of what went on in Trump's conversations with his Ukrainian counterpart and whether he broke the law and flouted the most basic constitutional principles will be distorted in a political maelstrom.
"Commissioner O'Rielly flouted the requirements of his position when he pushed for Trump's re-election, and OSC's conclusion that he violated the Hatch Act confirms our concern that O'Rielly is undermining the independence of the FCC," Evers said.
Last month, Chinese national He Jiankui flouted a vigorous scientific debate when he told a room full of scientists that he had manipulated the embryos of Chinese twins, using Crispr, and made one resistant to their father's HIV.
I used to love Pennywise, is the thing: I was a child aficionado of horror movies, in general, and of IT, in particular; I flouted my parents' rules and snuck viewings of the original IT at friends' house.
He called the use of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities against an American political campaign "a serious red line that's been crossed" and said he believed that the investigative activities directed at the Trump campaign flouted typical procedures.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, coming on the heels of the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, the framers of Russia's new Constitution prohibited the classification of information about the environment, though that provision has been flouted before.
Who else is better equipped to understand the symbiosis between show business and politics and to assert that when a certain degree of wealth and power have been achieved, the ordinary rules of human behavior can be flouted?
That didn't save the city in the 1985 earthquake, when we learned that those codes had been flouted for years by lax or corrupt building inspectors, and thousands of people were buried under the rubble of shoddy construction.
Police have been investigating whether a conference center near Prague, built by a company that Babis owned in the past, may have flouted rules to receive a 50 million crown ($2.25 million) European Union subsidy a decade ago.
But as a candidate, Mr. Trump called the government corrupt, assailed the Republican establishment, flouted almost every rule of political etiquette, racial and otherwise, and did so in a way that made the alt-righters trust his instincts.
The way in which the trial court flouted that legal test and in so doing usurped the clearly expressed position of the 2017 Congress is the reason there is a broad legal consensus that the decision is lawless.
Trump expressed optimism over prospects that North Korea would give up its nuclear program, and repeated that he was not bothered by recent missile tests, which he indicated he did not believe flouted United Nations Security Council resolutions.
"The government of Nigeria is in dire need of cash from a budget perspective and MTN presents a good target because it's a big company and it has flouted regulations before," Dobek Pater of consultancy house Africa Analysis said.
The ANC's reputation was bruised by Zuma's flip-flopping over the finance ministry and by a constitutional court ruling that said he flouted the law over an order to repay inappropriate spending of state funds on his private home.
In his latest column for USA Today, Jonah Goldberg rounds up the main arguments—that Obama "lowered the bar" for the presidency, that he created a "more tribalist" America, that he flouted the rule of law—but goes further.
But other stars have flouted the minimalist trend and opted for tattoos that are more of a bold statement than a whisper, like Rihanna with her massive chest piece and the eyes on the back of Cara Delevingne's neck.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the capital markets regulator, is looking into whether Tata Sons flouted corporate governance rules, as Mistry alleges in his letter to the board, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
In fact for now, the network will only back a handful of GOP Senate candidates in Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Tennessee in the midterms as it seeks to freeze out Republicans it believes flouted its brand of fiscal conservatism.
State election laws were ignored or flouted, critics say, and campaign finance rules exploited to allow Mr. Cuomo's donors to use multiple, anonymous companies to give amply to his coffers, a practice urged on by a longtime Cuomo associate.
McGee might have been distracted recently by a former landlord's lawsuit claiming that he had caused damage to his Dallas apartment, been late on payments and flouted a no-pet rule by harboring a nearly hairless cat named Raja.
"In recent days, it appears that Administrator [Scott] Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and potentially additional agency heads, have consistently ignored and flouted the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)," Reps.
ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed on Saturday Russian accusations that it has flouted de-escalation agreements with Russia and Iran in Syria's Idlib province, and threatened to take military action in the area if diplomatic efforts with Moscow fail.
The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.
Small-scale miners who flouted repeated warnings in their search for jade at a defunct mining site were buried by muddy earth that slid off a cliff on Monday, said Kyaw Swar Aung, the administrator of Hpakant in Kachin state.
Whether it is pulling out of the Paris accord on climate change, the Iran nuclear deal or defying Congress to fund his border wall, he has often flouted official advice and alienated himself from much of the rest of the world.
Trump was greeted as a hero when he visited Poland last year, a trip that was seen as an endorsement for the nationalist ruling party that has flouted EU rules and refused to accept the refugees required by international agreements.
Shovelers should also keep in mind that they are not allowed to toss snow into the street or on fire hydrants, although the amount of snow that builds around parked cars during every storm suggests that this rule is often flouted.
After its astronomical climb to a valuation of $4.5 billion in just over two years, Zenefits fell deep into despair after news emerged that it had repeatedly flouted insurance laws, leading to the ouster of its then-CEO Parker Conrad.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday over a medium-range ballistic missile test by Iran that the United States, Britain and France said flouted U.N. restrictions on Tehran's missile program.
Part of a sweeping package of reforms pushed by Democrats in 2016, the regulations clamped down on a gun industry innovation, known as the bullet button, that flouted an earlier statute meant to regulate rifles with detachable, quickly reloadable ammunition magazines.
MORE flouted the Constitution, ordering the nation to war in Libya without a congressional resolution, let alone a declaration, and repeatedly circumvented Congress in areas such as immigration — the very act that Obama's defenders now denounce in the Trump administration.
Despite all of his previous misgivings about "process," Graham still voted for the Better Care Reconciliation Act—the so-called "skinny" repeal bill—that would have uninsured tens of millions of people and that flouted all the Senate's democratic conventions.
The Trump administration may have flouted federal law when it blocked an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rule requiring employers to report detailed pay data broken down by sex and race, according to National Women's Law Center General Counsel Emily Martin.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.
What's no laughing matter is the unwillingness of the Republican Party to cast a critical eye upon a sitting president who has so flouted accepted practice for dealing with any foreign leader — not to mention one as adversarial as Vladimir Putin.
Although the Obama administration initiated support to the coalition to help defend Saudi territory from Houthi incursions, it finally moved to curtail arms sales when the aims of the war expanded and the constraints we tried to impose were flouted.
The 66-year-old, who has flouted the advice of his own government not to engage in physical contact during the coronavirus crisis, dismissed the suggestion that he should not be shaking hands with an elderly woman at risk of contagion.
The Democratic chairmen of two key House committees are questioning whether the government flouted "appropriate" procedures when it recently approved the $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, green-lighting one of the largest telecom deals in recent history.
She calls it "absorbing" and says it "underscores just how outside presidential norms Trump's behavior has been — how ignorant he is about his basic duties as president, and how willfully he has flouted the checks and balances that safeguard our democracy."
And when third baseman Carlos Correa, Lindor and second baseman Javier Baez whipped the ball around the horn after a strikeout, it was with the sort of flamboyance that would have clearly flouted some unwritten rule of the American game.
And many of those controversies are problems of Page and Brin's creation, either because the duo didn't foresee the ways in which Google could do harm or because they explicitly steered the company in a direction that flouted standard corporate ethics.
The legal US age for e-cigarette use is 18, and Walley and others complain that with 1 in 5 teens now vaping, those rules are being flouted, with kids ending up hooked on nicotine, which changes adolescent brain development.
They apparently were so convinced by his campaign statements that he was prejudiced against Muslims that they flouted precedent to be able to block a travel ban in one of his executive orders that applied to countries with large Muslim populations.
The controversial HB2 law — which flouted federal law about transgender rights and barred local municipalities from adopting anti-LGBT discrimination laws — sparked a national conversation, boycotts and a Justice Department lawsuit accompanied by heartfelt and stern words from the attorney general.
The Commission rejected the fiscal plan for 2019 last month, saying it flouted a previous commitment to lower the deficit and did not guarantee a reduction in the country's debt, already the second highest in the euro zone as a proportion of GDP.
Even as the protest went on in the House, one of Trump's lawyers was in court close by arguing against the release of the President's tax returns -- to restore a tradition followed by previous commanders in chief but flouted by the current one.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the lead-up to an international court ruling on China's claims in the South China Sea this month, United States officials talked about rallying a coalition to impose "terrible" costs to Beijing's international reputation if flouted the court's decision.
On Thursday, South Africa's highest court ruled that Mr. Zuma had violated the Constitution by refusing to pay back some of the millions of dollars in public funds spent on the improvements, saying he flouted laws meant to safeguard the country's young democracy.
"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted U.S. foreign policy, and is in complete contradiction to Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," Mr. Sullivan said.
The messages came as Instagram attempts to crack down on malicious behavior on its platform in the wake of a series of Business Insider investigations into companies that have illicitly scraped millions of Instagram users' data or otherwise flouted its rules with impunity.
Jodorowsky, for his part, was a founding member of the Parisian anarchistic art happening Panic Movement, which flouted conventional morality in Surrealist fashion, and is the creator of some of the craziest, most incomprehensible, and most transgressive films in the history of cinema.
And finally, nondemocratic countries like Russia, China and Saudi Arabia — where the rule of law is routinely flouted and civil liberties are not protected — should not be able to count on the same rights and privileges in the international system as democracies can.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it would respond to a decision by Twitter Inc to ban adverts from media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, saying the move flouted international and domestic laws on free speech, the RIA news agency reported.
The Orange County sheriff has flouted the state by posting the dates and times when inmates will be released, in effect creating a tip sheet for federal officials so they can more easily find undocumented immigrants they deem high-risk enough to deport.
Absolutely. GLENN THRUSH: Well, you heard Hayden say that, you know--was it Hayden who said that, you know, on some of the prisoner treatment stuff, if he flouted the law, they would have to defy the President of the United States.
But he flouted authority and flayed his counterparts in the national security establishment, flaunted what DIA officers called "Flynn facts" – falsehoods – such as asserting that Iran has killed more Americans than al Qaeda in the 21st century, and was fired  in 2014.
The Commission rejected Italy's 2019 fiscal plan last month, saying it flouted a previous commitment to lower the deficit and that it did not guarantee a reduction in the country's debt, the second highest in the euro zone as a proportion of GDP.
Congress appears unlikely to override the veto, so the fate of the declaration probably will be decided by the same Ninth Circuit Courts that flouted precedent to block Trump's travel ban, which almost certainly will result in another lower court defeat for Trump.
The company was responding to a China Labor Watch report released Sunday, which alleged that a Foxconn plant had flouted local laws and internal Apple standards to produce the iPhone 11 through forced overtime, unpaid bonuses and illegally hiring too many temporary workers.
First, beginning in the 1990s, the Republicans strategically demonized Congress and government more broadly and flouted the norms of lawmaking, fueling a significant decline of trust in government that began well before the financial collapse in 2008, though it has sped up since.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he would return to Venezuela on Monday to lead new protests against President Nicolas Maduro, running the risk that authorities arrest him given he flouted a travel ban to leave the country last week.
The Democrats claim Trump has violated the Constitution by not allowing them to review his business interests, and noted that he's flouted the practice of past presidents who've divested their holdings while in office and notified Congress of what they accept from foreign powers.
Officer resigns but will get $69,000 The investigation, released on Thursday and available here, found no evidence of racial profiling but did say Smyly flouted two police department policies: he violated police authority and public trust, and he violated the department's code of conduct.
Several HIV/AIDS patients have sued CVS Health, alleging the pharmacy giant flouted federal and state insurance laws by forcing patients into two options: fill their prescriptions at CVS locations or through CVS' mail order, or face thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs.
MOSCOW, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it would respond to a decision by Twitter Inc to ban adverts from media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, saying the move flouted international and domestic laws on free speech, the RIA news agency reported.
Her opponent was not Mitt Romney or John McCain or Marco Rubio but Donald J. Trump, a demonstrably crooked businessman and reality-television star, an unsavory, if shrewd, demagogue whose rhetoric and policy proposals had long flouted the constitutional norms of the United States.
Therefore, the lawyers argued, Bosch must have known that its software had been transformed into a "defeat device" able to recognize when emissions tests were underway, and to turn up pollution controls so that regulators would not realize that the cars flouted clean air rules.
CARACAS/SALINAS, Ecuador (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Sunday he would return home to lead new protests against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, running the risk authorities arrest him given that he flouted a travel ban to leave the country last week.
ROME — The European Union upped the ante in a standoff with Italy on Wednesday, taking another step toward punishing a government that has repeatedly flouted its fiscal rules by insisting on a heavy-spending budget that fails to bring down the country's burdensome debt.
The N.C.A.A. punished Rutgers for what it characterized in a ruling Friday as a failure to monitor its football program over a five-year period during which the former head coach and the program flouted N.C.A.A. and university rules related to recruiting and drug-testing.
During the trial, prosecutors showed that Mr. Percoco flouted state ethics laws in 2014 by continuing to work from Mr. Cuomo's Manhattan offices, even though he had taken a leave of absence from his state job to work on the governor's re-election campaign.
A recent dinner started with a walk up steep steps to the artist's garret with a newly engaged couple who flouted convention (they were mulling an affair with their therapist), a wallpaper designer educated at the Yale School of Art and a literary agent.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Software startup Zenefits must pay the state of Tennessee $62,500 for violating insurance requirements, state officials said on Monday, marking the first settlement with regulators as the scandal-hit company seeks to redeem itself after revelations it had flouted the law.
In a country where the rich routinely avoid taxes, money is frequently spirited in and out, laws are regularly flouted and few questions are ever asked of the wealthy and the politically connected, what sin have we, the Sharifs, committed that others have not?
Her opinions were admittedly bold and often flouted the consensus of her peers, but it was the writing itself — irreverent, erudite, uncompromising — that kept her fans coming back for more, even if they felt vaguely insulted by her cruelest put-downs of sappy sentiment and middlebrow complacency.
In the joint declaration — which Rodong printed at the bottom of its third page — the two sides confirmed a "common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula," a commitment North Korea has made before and then flouted by conducting six nuclear tests.
Joan Claybrook, a former administrator of the safety agency, criticized the measures as ineffective in an industry in which one automaker after another has flouted federal laws and been punished for not reporting accident data and defects to regulators in a timely manner, as the law requires.
"The SIU (Special Investigating Unit) will look into allegations that the procurement of, or contracting for, information technology-related services from SAP had not been fair, competitive, transparent, equitable or cost-effective, and that legislation, guidelines or policies had been flouted," the presidency said in a statement.
Republicans nominated a candidate who has flouted a whole host of conservative orthodoxies, but retains the undying support of a hard core of Republican voters because of one stance: his overt hostility to non-whites, including Latinos, blacks, and Muslims with origins in the Middle East.
Ban's reluctance to state whether the March missile launches flouted the council resolution, which was adopted a year ago as part of the deal to curb Iran's nuclear work, further weakens the case for new sanctions that hinged on the interpretation of ambiguous language in the resolution.
What about the millions of jobs that are lost because of what China has done?" he asked, adding: "Why on earth would President Trump promise to help a Chinese telecom company that has flouted U.S. sanctions and whose practices are a risk to our national security?
"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted U.S. foreign policy and is a complete contradiction to Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
MANILA — The chief justice of the Philippines, who has resisted some of President Rodrigo Duterte's policies on the grounds that they flouted human rights and the rule of law, faces an impeachment vote next week over accusations that she had concealed some of her income for years.
When Brandon Belt of the Giants, the second batter of the game, stepped in to face Jaime Barria, a rookie pitcher for the Angels, they produced an at-bat that, in almost every conceivable way, flouted Commissioner Rob Manfred's efforts to speed up the pace of play.
In the Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said the termination of grants to pregnancy prevention programs in Texas and North and South Carolina, "without any explanation whatsoever," was arbitrary and capricious, flouted the agency's own regulations and violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
But in the past week, evidence has emerged to support the allegations by gay soldiers that investigators flouted the army's own regulations on how to treat gay service members by preying upon the soldiers' fear of shame and abuse if they are outed in the military.
His performance not only flouted the paternal conventions of the modern presidency -- which date at least to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats during the Great Depression -- it also suggested that when he's not in a formal, scripted setting, Trump really cares only about his own political motivations.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated that he was open to allowing Japan and South Korea to manufacture their own nuclear weapons to deter North Korea, an idea that drew a withering response from the Obama administration, which said the idea flouted decades of nonproliferation policy.
Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government's top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States' ethical standards, which have been admired around the world.
Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since a 1989 Islamist and army-backed coup, rejects the authority of the International Criminal Court and has flouted the warrant before, traveling in the Middle East and Africa as well as to China and Indonesia, which are not members of the court.
Washington (CNN)A draft of the much-anticipated report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog, addressing a wide-ranging set of allegations that department protocols were flouted when the FBI investigated Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, has been completed, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
Legal experts have said the charges against Gordhan would be extremely hard to prove in court as they would have to show he intentionally flouted the law when he granted early retirement to a deputy commissioner at the revenue service and then re-hired him as a consultant.
In a report earlier this year, Mr. Johnson took issue with pronouncements by Mr. Astorino, a Republican, and other top county officials that he said were not only false, but also flouted the public education campaign that the settlement requires the county to undertake about the benefits of integration.
Although it remains unclear why some hewed closely to the regulations while others flouted them, one emerging pattern was that women held by senior commanders were more likely to be given contraception, in contrast to those held by junior fighters, who perhaps were less versed on the rules.
Just as Mr. Trump flouted the most deeply held traditions of the American presidency in equating the torch-wielding white nationalist marchers and the activists who fought them last summer in Virginia, he shredded all the accepted conventions in Finland of how a president should conduct himself abroad.
A proudly independent soul, very private, he flouted some of the rules of scientific decorum, made enemies, ignored niceties, said what he thought, focused obsessively on his own research program to the exclusion of most other concerns and turned up discoveries that shook the pillars of biological thought.
The crown prince's newest decree did not free any political prisoners; and given women who flouted the driving ban remained in custody following its repeal, it is unlikely the new laws will lead to freedom for the very activists who have been calling for these changes from the beginning.
The Cherokee suit argues that the pharmacy chains Walmart, Walgreens and CVS Health, as well as the giant drug distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen, flouted federal drug-monitoring laws and allowed prescription opioids to pour into the Cherokee territory at some of the highest rates in the country.
It is a place where Republican leaders, who took full control of the executive and legislative branches four years ago for the first time in more than a century, have audaciously remade rules and flouted norms in their effort to restore North Carolina to their perception of greatness.
"The commission's failure to adhere to the [Paperwork Reduction Act] … flouted a legal framework whose provisions would have offered a safeguard against a misguided, and potentially quite harmful, national fishing expedition for voter data," wrote Larry Schwartztol, counsel to Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan watchdog, for the blog Take Care.
It is figuratively the case with Uber and Lyft, which have flouted laws to build massive global companies and undermined taxi and black-car businesses in the process, while fostering the growth of the gig economy and creating new services that millions of people around the world rely on daily.
While Uber is only offering a professional licensed driver service in Spain — also relaunching with this service in the country's capital city Madrid, two years ago — taxi drivers argue that local regulations continue to be flouted because there are more licensed vehicles on the road than the official ratio allows.
It reprised a merger that the F.T.C. stopped in 1997, it flouted the F.T.C.'s earlier success in a way that the commission could not lightly tolerate, the defendants were caught telling customers to buy soon before the merger raised prices, and Staples deliberately antagonized President Obama administration during the review.
Sonia Rykiel, the Paris fashion designer who planted her contrarian flag on the Left Bank in the 1960s, flouted haute couture conventions and created chic ready-to-wear clothes that caught on around the world with generations of women on the go, died on Thursday at her home in Paris.
Though many of the hijinks recounted in Ball Four now seem rather tame, Bouton's book flouted the clubhouse omerta so egregiously that baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and numerous players, managers and even baseball writers felt compelled to publicly condemn the book at the time—many without even bothering to read it.
Domestically there was a cost, too, as Nixon started the counter-reformation to the '803s, flouted the Constitution, created enemy lists, launched the war on drugs that would eventually lead to mass incarceration, and cynically did everything he could to destroy the leadership of the black community and the antiwar movement.
Mr. Stone, 67, deserved seven to nine years behind bars because he threatened the witness with bodily harm, interfered with a congressional investigation and then, after he was charged in a federal indictment, repeatedly flouted the orders of the judge overseeing his case, the prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
Victor Hong alleges the U.S. agencies "capriciously" and "in bad faith" flouted the law when assessing whether he was due a payout for information he provided to probes into the British bank's mis-selling of mortgage bonds in the run-up to the 2007-20073 financial crisis, court filings show.
Victor Hong alleges the U.S. agencies "capriciously" and "in bad faith" flouted the law when assessing whether he was due a payout for information he provided to probes into the British bank's mis-selling of mortgage bonds in the run-up to the 2007-20073 financial crisis, court filings show.
Victor Hong alleges the U.S. agencies "capriciously" and "in bad faith" flouted the law when assessing whether he was due a payout for information he provided to probes into the British bank's mis-selling of mortgage bonds in the run-up to the 22007-22014 financial crisis, court filings show.
Washington (CNN)The moment Donald Trump became the 45th President, some legal experts say he triggered a violation of the foreign emoluments clause in the Constitution, flouted the plain terms of the lease for his Washington hotel, and opened himself up to a dizzying array of ethical questions on financial conflicts of interests.
As he explained during an interview at Stanford, "…we can build and create awesome experiences, people care about that and then we can actually work on the biggest problems that change the world and that's awesome…" These four firms flouted venture conventions, and sought out the path-breaking investments that would drive returns.
Then, through the lens of two murder investigations undertaken in one frantic night, a third story provided a step-by-step account of how the detective and his enablers flouted fundamental police procedures over the span of many years, letting murderers roam the streets while condemning the innocent to decades behind bars.
He also cited other harms linked to Prohibition: the reduced ability of people to drink for pleasure (impinging on civil liberties), the government revenue lost from invalidated alcohol taxes, the corruption fostered as organized crime paid off police and politicians, and the delegitimization of government more broadly as people flouted the law.
According to the new study, published Wednesday in Nature, many factories in northeastern China have flouted the ban when it comes to a compound known as trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-211), which is an efficient destroyer of Earth's protective ozone layer and a far more powerful — albeit less abundant — global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide.
Some real paranoia, blaming enemies for problems of her own making, and real indications that she and Bill Clinton don't believe they are bound by rules that ought to be expected of them; that because others, especially Republicans, have flouted rules and political norms, that the Clintons are entitled to do it too.
An investigation by Voice of America and ProPublica, drawing on thousands of pages of public documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former workers, depicts a workplace environment in which concerns about safety, as well as workers' rights and compensation, are flouted despite years of complaints from workers to regulators.
While the president and his all-too-familiar surrogates spent the weekend doubling down on claims of "exoneration" that have no basis in fact, they have been more than met with a chorus of calls for Democrats to hold accountable a flagrantly corrupt president who has repeatedly flouted the rule of law.
If Trump's returns were public, "we would ... be better able to determine whether the president has been paying the taxes he owes, or whether he has flouted the law or pushed the legal boundaries — in other words, whether he has continued the kind of tax dodging exposed by the Times," the groups wrote.
The union, represented by Bredhoff & Kaiser, said in a complaint filed in Washington D.C. federal court on Friday that the board flouted the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it adopted the rule in December without first publishing a proposal and seeking comments from the public.
WASHINGTON — President Trump once again berated the "dirty cops" of the law enforcement establishment on Thursday, accusing the Justice Department of going after his friends but not his enemies in an outburst that flouted Attorney General William P. Barr's pleas to stop publicly intervening in prosecutions where he had a personal interest.
Mr. Spicer's assertion on Tuesday that the allegation would ultimately be proved correct suggested either that the president believes there was enough evidence for himself to be implicated in a serious crime or as an agent of a foreign power, or that the Obama administration had flouted the law to spy on him.
Ferguson flouted the Constitution's explicit promises of racial equality; pre-Warren cases slighted the Constitution's repeated affirmations of a "right to vote"; early-103th-century precedents ignored basic rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as plainly understood in the 1860s; and pre-Warren jurisprudence also undermined bedrock constitutional rights of political expression.
While experts debated whether the announcement gave Israel a green light to annex parts of the West Bank or flouted established international law, the only practical effect in the West Bank on Tuesday was a subtle shift in morale: It left Israeli settlers feeling slightly more confident and Palestinians slightly more depressed.
The bipartisan leaders of the House Ethics Committee said on Friday that Mr. Gaetz had flouted their requests for an in-person interview to answer to accusations that he had "sought to threaten, intimidate, harass or otherwise improperly influence" the congressional testimony of Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer.
It also hurt Mr. Zinke, the officials said, that the trips came when SEAL Team 26 — which, though now best known for killing Osama bin Laden, had initially been filled with hard-drinking mavericks who flouted the rules — wanted to project a more professional image to compete with the Army's Delta Force for top missions.
In making these cuts, IBM has flouted or outflanked U.S. laws and regulations intended to protect later-career workers from age discrimination, according to a ProPublica review of internal company documents, legal filings and public records, as well as information provided via interviews and questionnaires filled out by more than 1,000 former IBM employees.
Banks and servicers routinely flouted the rules by rejecting eligible homeowners, processing applications at a snail's pace and tossing people out even when they made their modified payments on time, according to a series of audit reports from the program's regulatory watchdog, the office of the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Russia has, since 1991, been at the center of an investigation into fraud involving IMF money, defaulted on its debt, flouted international human rights law in its wars in Chechnya, launched a cyberattack on Estonia, provoked a war in Georgia, annexed Crimea, and brazenly lied over the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014.
The suspension was ordered after Uber apparently flouted a temporary ban on adding new drivers while the regulator worked to catch up with a backlog of applications for drivers seeking ride-hailing permits — though Uber has claimed it had not been adding new drivers during this period (though it had lodged an appeal against the suspension).
The night of May 30, 303 — the night police dragged Kool-Aid and his Buick into the Area 5 Violent Crimes Unit — offers a one-night case study in how Detective Guevara, and the system that enabled him, flouted fundamental police procedures over the span of many years, letting murderers roam the streets while condemning the innocent to decades behind bars.
"We gathered here today for a conference, the first of its kind conference of attorneys general, dedicated to coming up with creative ways to enforce laws being flouted by the fossil fuel industry and their allies in their short-sighted efforts to hold profits above the interests of the American people and the integrity of our financial markets," he told reporters.
He was by turns an avid boxer, a circuit judge with lofty ambitions, a state leader who blatantly flouted federal authority, a symbol of defiance to the direction of the national culture, a hero to many rural and small-town whites and a politician who ran national campaigns on a promise to "send them a message" — all descriptions that perfectly fit Mr. Moore.
Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Trump on May 9, 2017, has worked in three administrations, and his book underscores just how outside presidential norms Trump's behavior has been — how ignorant he is about his basic duties as president, and how willfully he has flouted the checks and balances that safeguard our democracy, including the essential independence of the judiciary and law enforcement.
As president, he's flouted elementary rules about nepotism and conflict of interest; undermined the independence of the judiciary by impugning judges overseeing cases involving him or his administration; obstructed justice by firing James Comey after he refused to pledge loyalty to him; and arbitrarily limited media access by, for instance, replacing daily White House press briefings with off-camera gaggles where recording is banned.
In Wednesday's forum, which was moderated by Matt Lauer of NBC and was devoted to national security issues, Mr. Trump twice denigrated America's generals; suggested he would fire the country's current military leadership; and insinuated — vaguely, unverifiably and without evidence — that the intelligence officials who recently gave him a classified briefing about threats to the United States had said that the president had flouted their advice. Mrs.
In another illustrative recent example of the tussle between tech companies seeking to accelerate the deployment of autonomous technologies and regulators tasked with ensuring public safety, Uber's self driving cars were forced off the road in California last month — after the company initially flouted an order to terminate a pilot of the tech, after claiming it did not need a permit to operate them.
"Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice," the post read.
The cases revolve around the Constitution's once-obscure emoluments clauses, which critics say President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE has flouted, giving foreign diplomats an opening to curry favor with him by patronizing his businesses.
The appointment was outside, and to my mind flouted the regulations that govern when the Justice Department can have a special counsel, so the regulations say that you&aposre supposed to - as the Justice Department articulate what is the basis for a criminal investigation that the Justice Department is conflicted from investigating in the normal course, and the factual basis, the articulation of that is what is supposed to become the parameters of the jurisdiction.
But by all appearances — as detailed in the Democrats' report, and based on the reporting I've done both on the select panel since its inception and on the similar hearings that preceded it — Republicans on the select committee have abused their subpoena power to intimidate doctors and medical researchers, flouted House rules and traditions, and used shoddy evidence to promote a predetermined, partisan conclusion instead of making any genuine efforts at fact-finding.
Facebook's Research app requires Root Certificate access, which Facebook gather almost any piece of data transmitted by your phone (Image: supplied) Facebook's Research app requires Root Certificate access, which Facebook gather almost any piece of data transmitted by your phone (Image: supplied) Google's app might not have been able to look at encrypted traffic, but the company still flouted the rules — and had its separate enterprise developer code-signing certificate revoked anyway.
Under the proposed regulations, which will undergo a lengthy review process, debt collection companies will have to more fully document the debt they are trying to collect, make it clear how a consumer can dispute the debt, and observe state statutes of limitations that bar them from legally pursuing older debts — all safeguards that are frequently flouted, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency that plans to put forth the new rules on Thursday.
The dismissed political appointee, Kevin Chmielewski, also alleged that Pruitt flouted price limits on hotel stays and office decor, put an aide to work house-hunting for him, arranged taxpayer-funded trips to his native Oklahoma and other destinations just because he wanted to travel there and lied last week when he denied knowing about backdoor raises the agency had granted to two of his top aides, the lawmakers said Thursday in a letter to the agency.
In the green-carpeted room where the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee interrogated Nix for the second time this year, the audience included Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who blew the whistle on the surreptitious harvesting of up to 87 million Facebook users' data; Carole Cadwalladr, the Guardian reporter who broke the story; Shahmir Sanni, another whistleblower who alleges that the Brexit VoteLeave campaign flouted campaign finance laws during the referendum; and David Carroll, an American academic who has filed a legal suit against Cambridge Analytica, seeking access to his personal data file.
Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth and a contributor to The Upshot, made the case succinctly: Trump has flouted the norms of American elections and governance at every turn, including calling for the jailing of an opposing candidate, encouraging violence against protesters, endorsing the torture of prisoners, suggesting he might not respect the results of the election, falsely claiming that millions of illegal votes were cast, failing to resolve unprecedented conflicts of interest or to even disclose his tax returns, and attacking a federal judge based on his ethnicity (and that's of course a highly incomplete list).

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