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How to use the word violate in a Sentence?

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What happens to all the embryos created but not used? Does it violate ethical norms of respect to create so many potential human lives knowing that the vast majority will be destroyed or indefinitely stored? in the most extreme case, imagine an individual using sloughed skin cells left on a bathtub by Brad Pitt, for example, to derive sperm or egg in order to reproduce.

Glenn Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s exceedingly clear here that that the Connecticut policy does not violate Title IX, that these plaintiffs, far from having been denied educational opportunities, have had an abundance of them in high school, winning scores of awards and champion scholarships.

Josh Block

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do not want to create a false sense of security just because a restraining order or a protective order is obtained, a restraining order is simply a piece of paper that allows officers to take enforcement actions should a suspect violate the court order, but a piece of paper does not protect a person when someone is intent on causing them harm.

Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are prepared to use the full scope of our authorities to enforce the law—especially against those who have continued to violate the law after being warned by the agency.

The FDA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they were told and what went on were two different things, they trusted Franco. At 16, as actors, they took his lead that he would not violate that trust they had. Franco was their friend, and frankly, at 16, what do they do ? There are no options. There was no #MeToo.

Tony Marinozzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Iranian government needs to end its systemic persecution of women and allow peaceful protest. The United States will continue to voice our support for human rights in Iran and hold those who violate them to account, mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people.

David Dee

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's just another example of an effort to violate not only the jurors' First Amendment rights, but also Mr. Kelly's right to a jury of his own peers.

Jennifer Bonjean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every one of our officers will undergo scrutiny by the DA and an internal investigation -- just because they didn't violate the law, doesn't mean they acted appropriately based on our policy.

Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Conspiracy to violate the election code imputes liability to you.

David Clements

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Groups that solicit or encourage fake reviews violate our policies and are removed, we are working with Amazon on this matter and will continue to partner across the industry to address spam and fake reviews.

Dani Lever

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We remain confident that the Recall will qualify for the ballot. Gascon’s policies violate the law. He is an abysmal leader with 98% of prosecutors voting to support the recall. His unlawful hiring and promotion actions will result in millions of dollars to settle lawsuits.

Gascon Campaign co-chair Kathy Cady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am the parent of a student who's in high school and anything that we can do to restrict access to AR-15 makes my son safer and every other parents, kids in our community safer. i believe that any attempt by Austin to restrict, regulate, or hamper the sales of firearms does violate state preemption laws. And that violation of the preemption law risks a lawsuit from the attorney general, which I think is a needless waste of taxpayer resources.

Mackenzie Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe that any attempt by Austin to restrict, regulate, or hamper the sales of firearms does violate state preemption laws. And that violation of the preemption law risks a lawsuit from the attorney general, which I think is a needless waste of taxpayer resources.

Mackenzie Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Such an arrangement would violate House Rules and the House Ethics Manual regulations which clearly states that 'no logical distinction can be drawn between the private contribution of in-kind services and the private contribution of money, and that both perpetuate the very kind of unofficial office accounts and practices that are prohibited' by the rule.

The Republican letter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Members who violate the tournament regulations are subject to disciplinary action, as communicated to our entire membership on 10 May, PGA Tour members have not been authorized to participate in the Saudi Golf League's London event, under PGA Tour tournament regulations.

PGA Tour

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's no question that the Buffalo shooting video drives home both the stakes of the HB 20 dispute and what's wrong with HB 20 itself, if any Texas-based account reposted or rebroadcast the Twitch stream, taking that down would, on my reading, clearly violate HB 20. When you deprive social media platforms of the ability to moderate content, you are all but guaranteeing that they will be awash in violent, inappropriate, and otherwise objectionable posts.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The legal defense funds and strategies facilitated obstruction and may very well violate Wisconsin law.

Michael Gableman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea is in no way to subvert or interfere with proper adoption proceedings, we’re not going to violate any laws.

Christopher Jahraus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If The US Supreme Court holds that federal border guards can not be sued, even for flagrant constitutional violations, The US Supreme Court will allow one of the world's largest law enforcement forces to violate constitutionally guaranteed rights with impunity, the US Supreme Court would strike a severe blow to constitutional accountability and the rule of law.

David Gans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never seen a case where all five employees of The EEO Department are essentially claiming collusion to violate someone's civil rights, the whole department is telling the same tale.

Pamela Keith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The maps violate a voter's fundamental right to vote.

North Carolina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't want to accidentally violate someone's civil rights because I don't know what I'm doing.

Charles Wesley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What needs to be changed with respect to The Rooney Rule is not the rule, but owners' compliance with the rule and the league's willingness to come down hard on owners when they violate the rule, the rule and the concept behind the rule are, in my view, strong. Compliance with the rule is, in my view, sorely lacking and that's where the disconnect is and that's what led to Brian Flores ' lawsuit.

Brian Flores

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are clearly not friends with the Russian athletes, we have to train and perform with them but because their country wants to violate our integrity, we can not have easy contact with them.

Lydia Gunko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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