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The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

He has to do that, or he'd be in violation of rule number one.

Cynthia felt first anger and then violation that a thief had entered their private quarters.

At length their chiefs ventured on the open violation of the British territories.

In the wild schemes of Shaftesbury after the election of Tory sheriffs for London in 1682 he had no share; upon the violation of the charters, however, in 1683, he began seriously to consider as to the best means of resisting the government, and on one occasion attended a meeting at which treason, or what might be construed as treason, was talked.

The Celman administration, in violation of the trust, then sold the specie and squandered the proceeds, leaving the provincial bank notes without guarantee and value.

This was a violation of the letter as well as of the spirit of the September convention, and a stronger and more straightforward statesman than Rattazzi would have declared Italy absolved from its provisions.

In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.

That power had been on the point of offering her armed mediation in revenge for his violation of her territory of Anspach; but she was fain to accept the terms which he offered at the sword's point.

The underlying principle is to reproduce natures scenic beauties, all the features being drawn to scale, so that however restricted the space, there shall be no violation of proportion.

It is, of course, true that the ethical conception of sin as violation of righteousness and an act of rebellion against the divine righteous will had been developed since the days of Amos and Isaiah; but, as we have already observed, cultus and prophetic teaching were separated by an immense gulf, and in spite of the reformation of 621 B.C. still remain separated.

A slave could not accuse his master, except of adultery or incest (under the latter name being included the violation of sacred things or places); the case of high treason was afterwards added to these.

Assuming this violation occurred, what is the punishment for breaking this law?

Violation of the duties of hospitality was likely to provoke the wrath of the gods; but it does not appear that anything beyond this religious sanction existed to guard the rights of a traveller.

His reputation as a consistent moderating influence in European policy and one of the chief guarantors of European peace was indeed rudely shaken in October 1908, the year in which he celebrated his ixty years jubilee as emperor, by the issue of the imperial Iscript annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Habsburg ominions, in violation of the terms of the treaty of Berlin.

The law does not condone the violation of other people's rights.

There followed a call from Groucho, whose name Dean learned was Coleridge, telling of a report that the Boyd pair was sighted in Kansas, stopped for a tail light violation on Sunday afternoon.

Such a gross violation of their caste prejudices would alone be sufficient to account for the outbreak that followed.

The primitive defence against sacrilege lay directly in the nature of sacred things, those that held a curse for any violation or profanation.

The violation of a passport, or safe conduct, is a grave breach of international law.

In less than a week they would be married, but somehow it seemed a violation of his bank account.

No such charges are brought by the prophet against the exiles, in whose simple life, indeed, there was little or no opportunity for flagrant violation of law.

This transaction, which was called commendation, gave rise in the German state to a written contract which related the facts and provided a penalty for its violation.

This violation of the Mosaic law and his continued cruelty roused the Jews, who complained to Augustus.

The Confederation of the Rhine, however, was a menace to Prussia too serious to be neglected; and Frederick Williams hesitations were suddenly ended by Napoleons contemptuous violation of Prussian territory in marching three French brigades through Ansbach without leave asked.

The grievances of English merchants arising from the violation of the navigation laws by the colonies continued, however, to receive the attention of the home government.

The annals represent him as getting into trouble with the Church on account of his violation of the right of sanctuary.

It was a violation of multiple rules within the Immortal Code.

An egregious violation will result in permanent expulsion of the offender from the list.

He received impunity for past human rights violation.

Violation of these rules could gravely harm the cooperation that GENUKI is obtaining from many information providers, and hence threaten its whole future.

The strength of this direct CP violation, characterized by the parameter epsilon prime, would be far weaker than the indirect version.

The security forces continued to enjoy virtual impunity for past human rights violation.

However, once war was declared, Clifford supported British participation because of Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality.

Disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence operative is a violation of federal law punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

The said list shall contain the objections in the amounts, the violation of laws and request for initiating respective judicial proceedings.

New construction of graphite-moderated reactors and related facilities in the DPRK would be a violation of the Framework.

Narrated by Jane Seymour orders in violation dropshot an old.

As it was on the Sioux reservation, the authorities in Washington were anxious to prevent this violation of the treaty stipulations.

One proof that the human telos or essence is inviolate is exploitation, the violation of our claims to material equality.

To limit this freedom constitutes a grievous violation of a basic right.

This legislation is potentially a quite flagrant violation of the First Amendment.

Clearly a gross violation of the law of conservation of momentum is implied.

Is this not a blatant violation of the resolutions of the Security Council?

The main fix is to prevent -t option giving a segmentation violation.

A parole violation resulted in a spell crossing America as a fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list.

What has this got to do with copyright violation?

To punish is to inflict penalty for violation of law, disobedience to authority, or intentional wrongdoing.

It is customary for young men who are attached to each other to swear eternal brotherhood (compare the Slavonic pobratimstvo); the contract is regarded as sacred, and no instance has been known of its violation.

From the Conquest or even earlier they had, besides various lesser rights - (1) exemption from tax and tallage; (2) soc and sac, or full cognizance of all criminal and civil cases within their liberties; (3) tol and team, or the right of receiving toll and the right of compelling the person in whose hands stolen property was found to name the person from whom he received it; (4) blodwit and fledwit, or the right to punish shedders of blood and those who were seized in an attempt to escape from justice; (5) pillory and tumbrel; (6) infangentheof and r L outfangentheof, or power to imprison and execute felons; (7) mundbryce (the breaking into or violation of a man's mund or property in order to erect banks or dikes as a defence against the sea); (8) waives and strays, or the right to appropriate lost property or cattle not claimed within a year and a day; (9) the right to seize all flotsam, jetsam, or ligan, or, in other words, whatever of value was cast ashore by the sea; (10) the privilege of being a gild with power to impose taxes for the common weal; and (11) the right of assembling in portmote or parliament at Shepway or Shepway Cross, a few miles west of Hythe (but afterwards at Dover), the parliament being empowered to make by-laws for the Cinque Ports, to regulate the Yarmouth fishery, to hear appeals from the local courts, and to give decision in all cases of treason, sedition, illegal coining or concealment of treasure trove.

In the sacrificial system of sin-offerings (Jhattath and'asham) we have to do with sin as ceremonial violation and neglect (frequently involuntary), or violation of holiness in the old sense of the term or as personal uncleanness (touching a corpse, eating unclean food, sexual impurity, &c.).