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Violate in sentence

237 examples of Violate in a sentence

The United States continues on a daily basis to violate the terms of the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties with the Lakota.
He didn't hurt me, he didn't violate me.
And when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Israel feared an Iraqi victory and actively helped Iran by selling it arms and providing it with spare parts for Iran's American weaponry at a moment when Iran was very vulnerable because of an American arms embargo that Israel was more than happy to violate.
Now, I would talk about one particular such plan that I know something about, but I don't want to violate TED's first commandment of selling, so I'm not going to talk about this at all.
Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.
Even if engineers could somehow design a machine that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law.
Nor can companies agree to do certain things, for example raise the prices of their unhealthy products, because that would violate competition law, as we've established.
So, first, we violate the common sense, the logic.
And I was thinking this morning of the good life, and before I show you the rest of my presentation, I'm going to violate TED rules here, and I'm going to read you something from my book as quickly as I can.
And so you buy them, and you bring them home, and you entirely violate the décor of your house.
When Velutha and the twins’ mother, Ammu, embark on an affair, they violate what Roy describes as the “love laws” forbidding intimacy between different castes.
That implies the trusted person won't violate the trust.
But I beg of the designers here to break all those rules if they violate the biggest rule of all, which is intelligence.
So, what I'm going to try and do in my lecture is go a little bit further and see if I can violate your expectations in a pleasing way.
So I'm going to show you some ways that we can violate your expectations.
And we can violate your expectations in a whole variety of ways about representation, about shape, about color and so forth and it's very primal.
We can violate your expectations about shape.
You can violate your expectations about experience.
Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
They violate every rule of command and have contempt for their employers at the CIA.
If you wanna have kids trained on weapons or the best way to kill a neighbor, go ahead, impose them Lethal Weapon, Kill Bill, any manga's anime, tell them Santa's a depraved who enters through the chimney directly to violate them.
When energy "is enforced" I always wonder how they managed to violate the laws of entropy and still are without Nobel prizes.
A client places his or her trust in the attorney and it is unconscionable for an attorney to violate that trust unless the client reveals to the attorney he is going to commit a crime.
One couple dares to violate this law and is sent to prison, and thus conflict ensues.
So although it is true that the Swinomish violate the law on fishing, this law does not take into account the fact that they have always made a living out of fishing and cannot survive without.
If the dude wanted to violate Indian and Hindu customs he could have drawn conclusiveness and purpose to it, he didn't bother doing that so what can I say?
Its maker, Howard Hughes, however, did intend it to violate silly taboos on the exhibition of females in film; the result is a movie than is fun, very attractively photographed and choreographed and a fine entertainment.
Here nurses break the law, doctors violate their oath, and unless you go along, you don't work.
NATO and U.S. officials who rail against the illegality of Yugoslavia's atrocities in Kosovo scoff at claims that NATO's bombing might violate international law.
International human rights law thus depends on powerful nations for enforcement, which in turn means that powerful nations are not subject to this law when they violate it.
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