Example sentences for: violating

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

  • This way, these reporters could be asked exactly what Mr. Bennett and you told them and they could answer honestly without violating any pledges of confidentiality.

  • The Washington Post bottom-fronts some refugee accounts of last week's Timor rampage, but stuffs the Moscow terrorism, all in favor of its lead about the latest fiscal gimmick gaining currency among Senate Republicans as a way to continue spending while technically not violating Congress' previously agreed-upon spending caps: declare the coming fiscal year to be made up of 13 months ("instead of the usual 12," explains the Post ever so helpfully).

  • Now, one could argue that by insisting on controlling the standards for Java, Sun is violating Joy's Law.

  • Lino Oviedo, who fled to Argentina in March after he was accused of involvement in the assassination of Paraguay's vice president, was exiled to a remote Patagonian island last week for violating the terms of his asylum, reports the Buenos Aires Herald . Oviedo, who had agreed not to make political pronouncements, broke his pledge by declaring that he should be running Paraguay.

  • At the time, the name was much mocked, violating as it did the precept that you don't choose words ending in the sound "iss " because people associate it with disease.


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