The smuggling flouts U.N. sanctions that strictly limit oil imports.
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Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) flouts authority and wears a black leather jacket.
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The movie flouts its intolerance in an attempt at provocative humor.
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Spurning this flouts the checks and balances that undergird our liberty.
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After a drink, Peter breezily flouts the official edict against ethnic labelling.
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It flouts safeguards designed to stop paedophiles insinuating themselves into children's confidence.
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Trump is the Joker, someone who flouts the law with merry impunity.
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Trading partners often complain that China flouts the rules to get ahead.
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Throughout, the memoir flouts the rules when needed and is conventional when necessary.
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Even if President Trump flouts these rules, corporations may continue to uphold them.
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In theory, a judge may decline to hear a barrister who flouts the dress code.
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It routinely flouts the Vienna Document, an accord designed to avert misunderstandings during war games.
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Both books are at their strongest when examining how Mr Trump flouts norms with impunity.
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While this type of arrangement is not uncommon in domestic work, it flouts minimum wage laws.
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The Trump-Netanyahu alliance flouts traditional protocol regarding how foreign governments and presidents-in-waiting act.
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And what are the implications when the president flouts what used to be seen as taboos?
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The idea that Trump has become popular because he flouts "political correctness" is pretty broadly accepted.
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When one side regularly flouts norms, the other side pays the price for striving to uphold them.
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The most awkward aspect of Freundlich's film is the way in which it flouts its own rules.
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Gutsy and gorgeous, Lemonade the film flouts genre, just like the R&B-rock-country-soul album.
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When a company recklessly flouts basic security standards, as Equifax did, there should be consequences and meaningful reform.
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Among his central theses was that apology served as the best remedy — a tact the Trumpian model ostentatiously flouts.
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Taxi owners argued that Uber flouts regulations, but have watched helplessly as riders, and drivers, flock to the platform.
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After all, one thing that makes the cool uncle so cool is that he flouts the stuffy parental rules!
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In opposing Obama's executive actions, Republican presidential candidates warn that his reliance on presidential authority flouts the US Constitution.
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Where we abide by international trade rules and norms, China regularly flouts these norms and steals our intellectual property.
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What is the point of your books of rules if you will gladly oblige a man who flouts them?
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But this again flouts Congress's decision to allow the Court to decide cases with a quorum of six justices.
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Supplying energy technology to Crimea flouts sanctions imposed by the European Union following Russia's 2014 annexation of the region.
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The problem with Sessions and his DOJ using the "I-word" is that it flouts the rule of law.
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"Gitmo has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law," he said.
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And who openly flouts federal ethics rules by seeking a sweetheart apartment deal and potential jobs for his wife?
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The states also argued that the DACA program flouts the will of Congress because it was created without congressional action.
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Like Midge, who rants about taboo topics like sex and women's bodies in her comedy sets, Susie flouts societal expectations.
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The court argued that such an arrangement flouts the Constitution's separations of powers and poses a risk to individual liberty.
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As a plus-size woman — or anyone whose body flouts the beauty standard — there's often a bonus layer of shame.
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"Anyone who flouts the law is putting other road users, and the quality of our air, at risk," he added.
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Donald Trump flouts the Constitution, raking in money from supplicants who curry favor with him by patronizing his gaudy hotels.
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Trump, meanwhile, flouts the rule of law, while Republican leaders in Congress try to pass major legislation largely in secret.
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As for outer packaging, a Japanese-made, stapled box in folded gray cardboard flouts the customary codes for better timepieces.
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Earlier this month, Mr. Rajoy told Parliament that he could not negotiate with a Catalan leader who flouts the Constitution.
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Similarly, she flouts the expectation that a person of color should write solely about the cooking of her own culture.
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Such horrors are why most countries outlawed the use of chemical weapons long ago—and why Syria's despot flouts that ban.
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They argue that the U.S. shouldn't cave to Raul Castro's regime, which openly flouts American values such as freedom and democracy.
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Strict constructionists interpreting the Constitution according to the Framers' original intent do not want a "Republican Obama" who flouts bad laws.
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Country after country flouts that treaty, and the United Nations has been unable to do much to compel countries to help.
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If Italy flouts European deficit restrictions, for example, investors and large banks likely would sell the government's bonds, fearing deep losses.
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"EPA's delay flouts the rule of law," Seth Johnson, an Earthjustice attorney who is representing the coalition, said in a statement.
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"EPA's delay flouts the rule of law," Seth Johnson, an Earthjustice attorney who is representing the coalition, said in a statement.
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But clearly some people would be uncomfortable working for a company that continually flouts the law in order to make disruption happen.
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When a country flouts these values, the Union can, as a last resort, remove that government's right to vote on Union matters.
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These manoeuvres may be legal, but their goal is tax avoidance, often in a way that flouts the spirit of the law.
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But even for someone who brazenly flouts literary conventions, taking on slavery in the context of a sci-fi thriller seemed dicey.
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Trump, meanwhile, is arguing that Clinton flouts the law and says her administration would be consumed with constant investigations and distracting scandals.
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That's according to a pediatrician who was a co-author of a book on medical myths, and who flouts the rule himself.
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Would state legislators actually follow through with this very high-profile vote that explicitly flouts the wishes of their most passionate supporters?
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If Italy flouts European deficit restrictions, for example, investors and large banks are likely to sell the government's bonds, fearing deep losses.
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"A Cure for Wellness" defiantly and splendidly flouts the tenets of plausibility and coherence, which have never interested Mr. Verbinski very much.
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In 2015, Gómez Palomo founded the brand Palomo Spain, which shows during men's fashion week but flouts the idea of gendered collections.
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Khamenei has long touted the benefits of a so-called "resistance economy" that flouts the global marketplace as well as the international community.
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If Hungary persists in its defiant policy that flouts human rights law, it will meet with further international criticism and possible legal sanctions.
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Critics say it flouts freedom of religion, breaches constitutional protections and excludes minorities who choose to wear symbols of faith from vital professions.
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The June solstice was traditionally used to mark the start of the winter months, but Australia flouts the laws of science and nature.
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"This is not a movie where a rogue hero happily flouts all the rules to save the world," Nouy told a conference in Helsinki.
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They also argue Trump obstructed the investigation by withholding key witness testimony in a way that flouts Congress' constitutional role of checking the presidency.
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He flunks every conceivable character test, flouts the norms of American democracy, and seems eager to transform America into an ethno-nationalist, quasi-fascist state.
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" Tanden acknowledges the difficulty of covering a president who flouts democratic norms, and she's quick to call the Times "a vital institution for American democracy.
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Russia flouts the rules by pretending that its exercises are much smaller than they are, while insisting on its right to observe NATO war games.
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If he flouts the rules and protection he's been given, DePaul said the US Marshals won't have any qualms about kicking him to the curb.
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"We urge Governor Little to veto this toxic bill that willfully flouts a court order," said Lambda Legal staff attorney Kara Ingelhart in a statement.
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Despite the Kremlin's statement last month that it wants to curb an arms race, this test flouts any practical moves to lower the bilateral temperature.
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Trump's attempt to oust a mainstream paper from the campaign trail flouts the principles of a free press at the core of our national history.
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But whereas a new applicant can be restrained if it strays off the democratic course, an existing member that flouts the rules cannot easily be disciplined.
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Victims of torture are not meant to be detained, precisely because of the trauma it can trigger, although the Home Office frequently flouts its own rules.
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Now, in the absence of any action from Congress, the government ethics office is on its own with a White House that openly flouts ethical norms.
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Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he has been elected to serve and the stability he is pledged to insure.
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"This memo flouts the clear evidence of medical science," said John Walke, an expert in clean-air policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy organization.
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He openly, repeatedly and defiantly flouts the very underpinning of American democracy — our basic institutions of balanced governance, the rule of law and the primacy of truth.
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It can be a campaign of diplomatic pressure, to underscore that a regime that routinely flouts the rules of civilized countries can't be treated as one itself.
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"Governor McAuliffe's executive order defies the plain text of the Constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia history," Howell said.
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The cavalier attitude with which the Trump White House flouts agreed-upon facts and relies on "well, we said it" as its justification for almost anything is remarkable.
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The movie's first of many mistakes is to throw in a girlfriend from rehab, Eva (Morgan Saylor), with whom Charlie flouts rules that discourage romantic relationships among patients.
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What if an employee at Catholic Charities — rank and file or Executive Director; the Executive Order makes no distinction — claims to be Catholic but flouts the Church's teachings?
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The European Commission has said that Italy's proposed budget — full of debt-financed welfare programs — flouts spending limits that countries in the European Union are supposed to observe.
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Mr. Macron has yet to address the case directly, but political opponents have seized upon it to portray the president as a haughty ruler who flouts the law.
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Presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française, Tilt flouts convention as it exposes young minds to cutting-edge international performances.
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For example, a juror will say, "I will [believe] a cop" simply because he's a cop, which completely flouts the instructions they received on how to follow the law.
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Since Donald Trump's victory last month, President Barack Obama has gone to great pains not to criticize him directly, dutifully adhering to the very political norms Trump casually flouts.
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If, in its fury, China flouts the ruling and continues its creeping annexation, it will be elevating brute force over international law as the arbiter of disputes among states.
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The aides complain about reporters who they say do not respect the solemnity of the setting, even as Mr. Trump flouts many of the norms associated with his office.
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She is less a fanatic than a singularly determined activist driven by what she describes as her "hatred" of a system that routinely flouts the law and Russia's Constitution.
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"We are sorry to see how your letter to the congressional leadership flouts the traditions of rigor and intellectual honesty that we learned together," the 21 former classmates wrote.
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In the United States, four U.S. states - Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Washington - have sued to overturn the order on the grounds it flouts constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.
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The rule change gave incentive to aggressiveness, but only Tomlin regularly, and unabashedly, flouts convention by going for 2 in situations that before would have otherwise required Boswell's services.
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But lawmakers from both parties have argued that the agreement flouts the House rules, which state that congressional hearings allow every member of a committee five minutes to question witnesses.
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Bad actors in China, which is fiercely competing with the United States for AI dominance but routinely flouts intellectual property rights, would likely use transparency requirements to steal source code.
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The administration's sham environmental review process ignores science, flouts tribal consultation, and gives no serious consideration to the significant biological, cultural, and climate impacts of this reckless oil extraction scheme.
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CAROLINE POPLIN Bethesda, Md. To the Editor: Re "Trump Flouts G.O.P. Dogma on Gay Issues" (front page, April 23): Kudos for your smart reporting on Donald Trump and gay rights.
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" Like A Woman flouts the typical layout of a bookshop, grouping titles together not by genre or category, but by "the impact the author has had on culture, history, or society.
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The gene editing activity in China not only flouts the safety-first standard in developed countries and exploits desperate patients, it misses an opportunity to learn from carefully designed clinical trials.
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The president casually flirts with nuclear war, erodes the separation of powers, flouts the rule of law, enriches himself, and says nice things about the neo-Nazis marching through the streets.
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Three days ago, Trump was promising "severe" punishments for Saudi Arabia after the journalist vanished, in an episode that flouts every conventional American principle on how governments should treat their people.
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Building on the precedent established by the Urgenda case, the young people from Oregon charge their government's climate policy is inadequate and flouts their constitutional right to live in a habitable atmosphere.
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At the very least, if you're dealing with a president who consistently belittles your profession and flouts press norms, don't take an admiring picture of some ham when you're at his house.
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Kremlin officials, speaking in private before the summit, acknowledged that it has been difficult to figure out how best to deal with a U.S. leader who is mercurial and flouts political etiquette.
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At a time when the president flouts constitutional values and Congress shrinks from using its powers as a check and balance, any nominee to the Supreme Court demands the most rigorous scrutiny.
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Nor is the North Korean leader likely mistaken in believing that Washington and Seoul will continue to offer sweeteners as he repeatedly flouts UN Security Council resolutions with ongoing ballistic missile tests.
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Suzanne Nossel: Social media platforms have the right to set their own rules As private companies, social media platforms are within their rights to set community standards and remove content that flouts them.
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He flouts them so flagrantly, lies so relentlessly, and seems to have no emotional capacity for shame or intellectual capacity to process what he's done wrong, making him incredibly hard to nail down.
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Donald Trump has forced us to wrestle with a problem that the Founders thought they had addressed: a president who flouts constitutional precepts and commits acts that exceed his stipulated and understood powers.
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Mr. Schneiderman, a Democrat, said of the settlement, "We hold every developer to the same set of rules, and when any developer flouts them, they will face serious consequences, just like Mr. Boymelgreen."
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"When the U.S. Secretary of Education's own alma mater flouts its responsibilities we begin to understand the pervasive disregard for Title IX compliance that includes the majority of public schools nationwide," she said.
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Opponents of the rule had challenged it on the basis that it flouts the narrow definition of what it means to be a "public charge" — dependent on government benefits — under federal immigration law.
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But steering families to hotel rooms instead — another stopgap solution — costs even more, and flouts another promise by the mayor: to phase out the use of hotel rooms as shelter for homeless people.
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A: The fear is that a government that runs bigger budget deficits and flouts EU rules, as the two populist parties suggested they would do, might scare off investors from lending the government money.
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They claimed that the governor's assertion of executive authority "defies the plain text of the constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia," according to the ruling.
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If they can do nothing else, Democratic senators and any Republicans bold enough to join them should make sure the public understands that a nominee's refusal to engage flouts both tradition and democratic accountability.
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The construction, like the missiles, flouts the spirit of a declaration China signed in 2002 with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), in which the parties promised to "exercise selfrestraint" in the sea.
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The head of the U.S.'s Defense Intelligence Agency said on Wednesday that Russia may be conducting low-level nuclear testing that flouts the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) which was negotiated in the 1990s.
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"—VICE News / CBS News Trump Flouts Advisers by Congratulating PutinThe president congratulated the Russian leader on his election win over the phone on Tuesday, ignoring a note from national security advisers that read "DO NOT CONGRATULATE.
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The fact Rixi first handed his resignation to Salvini, rather than to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, flouts the unusual procedure by which resignations of ministers must be accepted or rejected by the premier, not party chiefs.
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Opponents of the rule, including the state of New York and immigrant advocacy groups, had argued that the rule flouts the narrow definition of what it means to be a "public charge" under federal immigration law.
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Twitter said the article posted by the conservative website, The Federalist, as well as a tweet about it, violated the company's rules, which ban content that flouts the recommendations of public health officials on the coronavirus.
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Twitter said the article posted by the conservative website, The Federalist, as well as a tweet about it, violated the company's rules, which ban content that flouts the recommendations of public health officials on the coronavirus.
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The Foreign Ministry submitted an opinion to the Supreme Court warning of "irreversible catastrophe" if Japanese assets were seized, citing concerns that South Korea would be branded a nation that flouts international law and breaks promises.
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"All responsibility for what is happening rests with Armenia which is not interested in resolving the conflict and flouts international law," Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told a regional meeting in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
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The baymen say the company's dredging method, which is rarely permitted or practiced elsewhere in the state, flouts federal coastal management regulations and requires federal permits and state water quality certificates that the company has not obtained.
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In cases in which a defendant not only fights prosecution but flouts the authority of the government and the court, it is standard practice to aggressively push for a sentence at least within the advisory guideline range.
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Washington and its allies counter that the American presence in Asia since World War II has stabilized the region, adding that the United States protects smaller countries from China, which seeks to dominate them and flouts international law.
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Based on the testimony of 833 Eritreans in exile, the U.N. commission also found that mass detainment and enforced disappearance are wielded as tools of control over the population, often in an arbitrary manner that flouts international law.
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The case at the European Court of Justice comes as the American company continues to push aggressively into overseas markets, often butting heads with local lawmakers and taxi associations that say the company flouts transportation and competition rules.
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When I see a woman who flouts royal protocol, who hugs strangers, who talks about her marriage like a partnership instead of a prize, who puts up with a publicly toxic extended family, I feel a sense of relief.
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The show, Dan O'Brien's emotionally gripping, psychologically astute "The Body of an American," is an electric immersion in the nature of isolation and connection that, under Jo Bonney's fast-paced direction, flouts stage tradition with intelligence and challenging intricacy.
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But the political science professor is disturbed by what he feels is an aversion to the free exchange of ideas, which flouts the victories for which so many in the free speech movement of the 1960s fought and sacrificed.
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We can joke about how a guy with as long a history of anti-black views as Sessions should support a narrative of fighting for states' rights, but in actuality he flouts them when it suits him to do so.
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"The pardon of Mr. Arpaio, who repeatedly violated the civil rights of Latino residents of Maricopa County, Arizona and also violated a federal court order to desist from violating those civil rights, flouts the rule of law," the commission said.
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Nevertheless, the tales of the lama's sexual appetite have prevailed — in no small part because of the oral histories, in which Drukpa Kunley flouts both secular and religious sensibilities by reveling in sex and alcohol on his path to enlightenment.
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We're seeing this as congressional Republicans kowtow to a president who flouts the rule of law on a daily basis and who attacks the very institutions (the courts, a free press and now the special counsel) that can help sustain it.
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The filing seeks tougher bail restrictions against Mr. Manafort, arguing that writing the op-ed flouts a judge's admonition against trying to use the news media to influence the case against Mr. Manafort and Rick Gates, another former campaign official.
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Mr. Jacquot flouts the sentimental tradition of period costume dramas exemplified by the "Upstairs Downstairs"/"Downton Abbey" school of historical nostalgia by portraying servitude as a miserable life made more so by the resentment and mutual loathing of the haves and have-nots.
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A new report from the University of Toronto released Monday urges the Canadian government to immediately strike Mexico from the "designated country of origin" (DCO) list, concluding that Canada's inclusion of Mexico flouts its international human rights obligations towards those fleeing persecution.
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Critics of last week's nation-state legislation say it flouts the 1948 Declaration of Independence, but matters are messier, and uglier, than that: The new law only exposes an old dirty truth, an unspoken quid pro quo dating back to the creation of modern Israel.
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"It is a crisis when the president of the United States flouts the role of Congress and abuses his powers in order to get around the will of Congress and to undermine the democratic process for lawmaking set forth in the Constitution," she said.
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To read "The Vanishing American Adult" is to reside in a parallel universe where older Americans stoically uphold standards of decency and responsibility, instead of electing to the country's highest office a reality-TV star with six business bankruptcies to his name who brazenly flouts both.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author (CNN)Among the many generally accepted rules of politics that Donald Trump routinely flouts is the notion that a political leader's ideas, promises and pronouncements should remain coherent and consistent after they've been offered up publicly.
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Maybe in this calculation God should be written with a small "g" because a god whose image can be used to support one's every politically expedient position -- even if that position flouts one's stated religious principles -- isn't a god to be worshiped, but rather one to be pitied.
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Letter From Washington The United States is still fighting a war in Afghanistan and has troops in Iraq, the Iranian nuclear deal remains controversial, the Islamic State is weakened but continues to be threatening, North Korea is launching missiles, Russia flouts international norms, and China has expansionary designs.
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Together, its subjects — they include Cathy Cooper, a 60-something former heroin addict, now an artist in Los Angeles; Rachel Fleit, a filmmaker who flouts her baldness for the camera; and Alok Vaid-Menon, a transgender writer and performance artist garbed in a dress — form an eye-opening mosaic.
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We could discuss the ways that immigrants bolster key American industries, whether surplus labor stagnates wages, how ICE flouts legal arrest procedures, how to prevent terrorism, the ways that Muslims in America are unjustly and ineptly surveilled, how much securing borders would improve public safety or how expensive walls can be.
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"Submitting a false and misleading document to a foreign sovereign and its courts for an extradition decision is not only unethical but also flouts the comity of trust necessary for that process where judicial systems rely only on documents to make that decision," Firtash's American legal team wrote in a statement to me.
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Although his father, Lorenzo (Richard H. Blake), grudgingly approves of his son's refusal to identify Sonny as the shooter in a neighborhood killing — for reasons of pragmatism — he and his wife, Rosina (Lucia Giannetta), look on with dismay as Sonny takes their boy under his wing, drawing him in to his exotic but violent world, where Sonny's gang proudly flouts the law.
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LG: If you mean why are so many people calling for fact-checking now, I think it very clearly has to do with the sense that this is an unusual election and Trump is an unusual candidate, one who flouts basic norms of public discourse and defies any sense that your rhetoric should be at least loosely based on the facts.
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"When you have such an unstable regime that is so isolated, that generally flouts international norms and rules more than perhaps any nation on earth, that is also devoting enormous national resources hellbent on getting nuclear weapons that they can fire long distances, that poses a kind of medium-term threat that we have to pay a lot of attention to," he said.
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Indeed, the current U.S. approach is driving events toward one of three unpalatable outcomes: further Iranian progress toward a bomb; a European-Iranian deal on sanctions relief that effectively restores the status quo-ante of the JCPOA and flouts the entire U.S. sanctions regime; or renewed negotiations under the shadow of Iran's nuclear escalations and serious rifts between the United States and its diplomatic partners.
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"In reality, Uber has done little more than implement a business strategy that openly flouts the law while shifting many of the costs and nearly all of the risks of providing ride-hail services from itself to its drivers and passengers while forcing a race to the bottom through predatory pricing tactics — where, propped up by billions of dollars in venture capital funding, Uber will remain until its illegal strategy has forced all other competitors from the market," the lawsuit states.
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To limit the impeachment process to the most blatant presidential misdeed yet discovered would leave in the dust — unresolved for history, setting dangerous precedents — the possibility of holding accountable a president who routinely enriches himself at the expense of the taxpayers and flouts the Constitution's emoluments clause, lies so persistently that we're far from the democratic concept of transparent government, usurps the role of Congress by unilaterally holding up funds or using them for other purposes than it has approved, bullies private businesses by threatening a tax increase or a significant raise in postal rates (as Mr. Trump did to Amazon, whose owner also owns The Washington Post), tells intelligence alumni who openly criticize him that he'll suspend their security clearances and fights the law that allows Congress to obtain his tax returns.
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