Word: flout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, can be expected to sit still while others prepare to attack it. But, particularly with Syria divided at home and tied down abroad, no such threat loomed last month. It is thus ironic that a nation that thrives on--and usually deserves--a peace-loving reputation should so flout international...
...B.N.A. Act and then give authority over the document to Canada. The British were willing in principle, providing the Canadian Supreme Court agreed. In its ruling, the court said that Trudeau could ask for the B.N.A. Act. But it also ruled that any prior tinkering with the act would flout unwritten constitutional tradition unless it went hand in hand with "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
Federal officials estimate that up to 6 million illegal aliens now reside in the U.S. Last year alone as many as 1.5 million unauthorized immigrants eluded American border patrols. This swelling reservoir of willing workers makes it easy for unscrupulous businessmen to flout U.S. labor laws. A Labor Department survey completed last year found that 5% of U.S. businesses paid less than the minimum wage, and 21% failed to give time and a half for overtime hours...