Violation
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275 examples of Violation in a sentence
It was also a
violation
of the UN Charter, which includes the statement: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
Bush and Blair sought Security Council authorization for the attack, claiming that Iraq was in
violation
of its agreement to disarm.
One thing he can do unilaterally is slap duties on imports, potentially in
violation
of WTO rules.
Starting in the early 1970’s, religious Israeli settlers and hard-line Israeli nationalists pushed Israel into a disastrous policy of creating and expanding settlements on Arab lands in the West Bank, in
violation
of common sense and international diplomacy.
Ironically, the American plan is taking shape even before the US takes any action to reduce its own emissions, inviting charges of hypocrisy,
violation
of international law, and threatening a major trade war.
By any sensible measure, Corzine’s
violation
of the law was more serious than that of Tobias.
China’s first choice for the position, Henry Tang, was forced to withdraw because of private indiscretions and a disgraceful bid to have his wife take the fall for a zoning
violation.
So, if Trump followed through on his campaign promise to impose a 45% import tariff on Chinese goods (most likely in
violation
of World Trade Organization rules), he would strike a major blow to US multinationals’ profits.
The European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights regards the death penalty as a human-rights
violation.
The idea is simple: banks should be pressured to issue a new kind of debt that automatically converts into equity if the regulators determine that there is a systemic national financial crisis, and if the bank is simultaneously in
violation
of capital-adequacy covenants in the hybrid-security contract.
Any blatant and repeated
violation
of this commitment would – and should – result in the loss of the special privileges granted under the TPP.
We can see this as a
violation
of their autonomy, or a thwarting of their preferences.
Leung himself was caught with several illegal structures in his house, a
violation
that he exploited successfully against his rival, Henry Tang, in the election campaign.
Not only has Israel failed to halt its settlement activity since Annapolis – in
violation
of international law and its renewed road map commitments – but it has actually accelerated such activity.
And its militarization of the Spratlys is clearly a
violation
of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.
Trump’s move leaves it up to the US Congress to decide whether to re-impose nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, which would amount to a
violation
of the agreement.
Once in office, the new democratic government decided that before punishment could be meted out, the whole truth about the
violation
of human rights should be established.
In accepting a double freeze, the US would essentially be rewarding North Korea for ceasing activities that are already in
violation
of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Beyond the obvious
violation
of individuals’ privacy implied by such activities lies the danger that these firms will later make a deal with authoritarian regimes in Russia or China, where little, if any, effort is made to preserve even the illusion of privacy.
In other words, a host state that enters a foreign mission without consent (none was given in my time as EU Ambassador in Washington, DC, from 2004 to 2009), or hacks into its computer system, would be acting in blatant
violation
of the Convention.
It is no secret where Trump stands with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict: throughout his campaign, he promised to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – in clear
violation
of international law.
In 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, the US government, in conjunction with the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Israel, decided to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even though overthrowing another country’s government amounts to a blatant
violation
of international law.
Across developed and developing countries,
violation
of the public trust and failure to protect democratic institutions are straining systems of checks and balances that, in some cases, have been in place for centuries.
They are wrong: Yushchenko’s actions were necessary because the Yanukovych government, in clear
violation
of the law, was preparing to mount a constitutional coup that would have stripped the president of his remaining supervisory powers over the army and police.
Such contracts were in flagrant
violation
of the arms embargo instituted under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, which China approved.
A letter to Chinese officials, signed by many members of the US Congress, and a report by Amnesty International state that China exported weapons to Sudan in
violation
of UN resolutions.
Ideally, punitive strikes such as these would deter Syria’s government, or any other, from ever using chemical weapons again in
violation
of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
MUNICH – In blatant
violation
of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Commission has come forward with one bailout plan after another for Europe’s distressed economies.
But the US did not wait for a WTO ruling to confirm its claim and to authorize the imposition of tariffs as a penalty for China’s rules
violation.
President George W. Bush’s Iraq war – arguably a
violation
of international law – showed that though America spends almost as much on defense as the rest of the world combined, it could not pacify a country with less than 10% of its population and less than 1% of its GDP.
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