Example sentences for: violation

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

  • Another new provision adopted in 1997 prohibits any local program that has been found to engage in a substantial violation of the law or its grant conditions from being considered for an LSC grant in future competitions.

  • In that respect, participants noted that the SEC should be effectively using the option of referring cases when appropriate to the Department of Justice for investigation for possible violation of criminal statues.

  • Commentator Mark Shields has said of the Lewinsky scandal that it represents a violation of a "tacit agreement between Bill Clinton and the American electorate in 1992."

  • Among the barriers targeted by the truth school are the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule--which forbids the introduction into trial of evidence obtained in violation of that amendment--and the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on eliciting the truth from criminal defendants by compelling them to testify.

  • The WP is good on the reasons for the Democrats' dyspeptic reaction to the trial managers' Lewinsky gambit: they view it as a violation of the supposed bipartisan agreement worked out before the Senate trial.


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