Sentences with phrase «flouted when»

The wishes of the voters are flouted when they elect Democrats to the state senate that caucus with and function as Republicans.

The point you make about choosing the null to be the opposite of what you want to argue for is a very good one, and one the skeptics frequently flout when they argue that the non-statistically significant decadal trend means something.

Not exact matches

The Department of Labor lawsuit, originally filed in 2012, alleged that the company flouted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because its workers weren't making minimum wage ($ 7.25 an hour) when their bosses required them to take unpaid breaks, according to the Associated Press.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

But there are times when the stresses become abnormal, when the populace truly is at odds with each other, when people can not agree on the proper measures for coping with dangers and problems, when they blame those in authority and flout the establishment by unpatriotic acts.

Hence, when he chooses to establish a covenant with Israel he is not to be bargained with, but his sway and his will are to be gratefully accepted and flouted only at the people's peril.

The same way, in the last minute of a tie game when the other team had the ball, he flouted convention and ordered his players to foul and risk handing the opponents the game - winning free throw — Vee wanted the rock at the end, Vee wanted the last shot.

In 2014 thousands of people signed a petiton calling on the Department of Health to end these links as it has a conflict of interest when it is responsible for overseeing the law these companies flout.

After years of flouting a village ban on skateboarding on public ways, teenagers in Antioch will be able to skate legally this summer when a long - awaited park opens.

How is it that the anti-EU press, the Department of Health and Tesco seem to be aligned in a story attacking the formula marketing law as draconian, when this same law is routinely flouted with regard to instore promotion and advertising with no prosecutions being brought?

«We have laws in place to guard against these incidents, but they just aren't being enforced - when laws are flouted, licences must be revoked or suspended.»

Speaking on Joy FM's Top Story, Vitus Azeem questioned government's ability to recover the monies when orders given two years ago have been flouted.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A state agency reports today that Syracuse officials continue to flout civil service rules by keeping more than 100 employees on the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency when they actually work for the city.

But speaking to journalists on the issue on Monday, Dr. Issahaku maintained that the Finance Ministry did not flout the rules, «I think from our stand point here, all government foreign exchange has to be in the custody of the Central Bank and when government need their money, they take the equivalent in cedis,» «The 250 million dollars that was taken out of here, they did not take foreign exchange dollars, the dollars was surrendered to the Central Bank, it was sold to the Central Bank and the government took the equivalent of that in cedis to deposit it elsewhere.

While City Hall made cogent arguments for Uber's cars contributing to Manhattan's congestion, and originally articulated this as the reason for an immediate cap on Uber's growth, surge pricing was rarely mentioned when Mr. de Blasio eventually broadened his attacks on Uber to portray it as another greedy corporation trying to flout the rules of government.

One of the drivers flouting the ban was driving under the influence, speeding, and blowing through two red lights when he was caught, NYPD officials said.

Mr. Reynoso argued that Latinos should back Mr. Cuomo on the WFP line despite the tension between the governor and the party and his apparent flouting of the promises he made to them when he sought their endorsement in June.

It warned that they should desist from flouting the law of the land and stop wasting the common patrimony of the people of the state on political jamboree at a time when the INEC had not permitted political rallies in the state.

CITY HALL — Nearly 100 opponents of NYU's controversial Greenwich Village expansion plan were tossed out of the City Council's chambers before a final vote Wednesday when they flouted Speaker Christine Quinn's repeated calls for silence.

When Jess is entering a platonic embrace with Joe and Papa Bhamra is rounding the corner about to catch her, we shouldn't be worried for our heroine, we should be second - guessing such proto - sitcom trappings, which flout patriarchy without critiquing it.

Speaking off the record, as has become the norm when Amazon is involved, one senior figure said: «Everyone is talking about reaching a horrible place on terms, and I think there's increased frustration from publishers concerning data and their listing of multiple editions, often flouting territoriality.

So when Emily describes cutting as a substitute for creative journaling and as a means to feel «almost human,» Bohjalian's not flouting conventions of YA lit; instead, he's locating his story in an established pattern of others.

With these signature dots, the New York — based artist flouts the stringent orthodoxies of vanguard painting that dominated art schools when she was a student at Yale University in the late 1960s, opting instead for an unapologetically unconventional mode that also includes glam sprays of glitter, exuberant color, and labyrinthine passages of stitching.

When the IPCC flouts its own rules outrageously — yet insists it has followed them religiously — its credibility evaporates.

Your arguments can only improve if you actually learn the laws they are currently flouting, and while I fully understand your lack of respect for «authority» — while respectfully suggesting that it edges well over into iconoclasm for its own sake when you make statements that violate the experimentally verified laws clearly explained in every thermo textbook.

The GAO alerted the EPA to these floutings in January 2007, when it discovered that Jet Ocean Technology, a Chino, Calif. - based firm, had been circumventing the CRT rule.

But when the law is being flouted by some of the biggest companies operating in China, blame tends to fall less heavily on local officials than on the companies themselves.

In fact, as we now know, Pruitt has a long track record — going back to his days in Oklahoma — of flouting official procedures when it suits him.

The Court concedes, as indeed it must under our decisions, see Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572; Thomas v. Collins, 323 U. S. 516, that if denial of the right to speak had been contained in a statute, appellant would have been entitled to flout the law, to exercise his constitutional right to free speech, to make the address on July 2, 1950, and when arrested and tried for violating the statute, to defend on the ground that the law was unconstitutional.