Example sentences for: violate

How can you use “violate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Determined to abolish race preferences in higher education, the Center for Individual Rights of Washington, D.C., is funding a provocative ad campaign telling students that academic affirmative action policies "violate the law."

  • Earlier this week, a freshman at Yale, a religious Jew, wrote an NYT op-ed complaining that the casual sex atmosphere of the coed dorms Yale is requiring him to live in meant Yale was forcing him to violate his religious principles.

  • Bennett's only accomplishment was a rather dubious one: getting the Times to violate its own standards of fairness by printing a nasty smear--an unspecified allegation from an unnamed accuser, passed along by an anonymous, if easily identified, source.

  • Slate's lawyer tells me this sort of framing doesn't violate anyone's copyright (phew!)

  • I asked Lewis to explain why Gore's fund-raising calls from the White House did not violate the law prohibiting the solicitation of funds on government premises.


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