Word: disregard
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Convinced that the Enquirer had acted with reckless disregard for the truth, the jury awarded Burnett $300,000 in general damages and $1.3 million-almost as much as the privately owned tabloid says it earned in 1980-in punitive damages (her legal fees were more than $200,000). William Masterson, the Enquirer's lawyer, said the decision would be appealed...
Theirs is a disregard of the damage they do every time they refuse to change their subtly discriminatory teaching modes, which include the use of case studies that unfailingly depict welfare recipients as women or Blacks and government administrators as white males...
...MORAL MAJORITY will never use a Jimmy Buffett tune for its campaign theme song. This son of a son of a sailor and captain of high times upon the high seas has an irresistible disregard for authority and thus great appeal for those who prefer to live and let live. The topical trends of songs like "Manana" and "Why Don't We Get Drunk" have endeared Buffett to a group of fans whose numbers are certainly smaller than Springsteen's following, but whose rowdiness level is equal or higher...
...general absence of rights in a police state, where the law could be ignored with impunity by any government officer didn't make sense. Rubenstein makes clear there are no independent judicial institutions in Russia and--no dissident has ever been tried and found innocent--there is a total disregard for legality at all levels of the government...
...simply asking to leave. They are not political in any oppositional sense. In fact the contradict the very philosophy of the human rights movement which is based on civil disobedience. Because they represent no direct threat to the Soviets, their captivity is difficult to defend and represents complete disregard for the rights...