Word: flout
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Laborite Hastings Bernard Lees-Smith (moving an Opposition amendment of disapproval, which was not expected to pass), "If you flout the League of Nations, you will not secure a united nation to fight...
...accepted the 40-hour week only for textile workers. The International Labor Conference has no legislative powers; its approval of the 40-hour week for the textile industry was nothing more than a recommendation, but a recommendation that the Governments represented at the Conference will not be able to flout lightly...
...split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout the Treaty of St. Germain by last week calling 8,000 21-year-old youths to compulsory military service...
...will go home with the satisfaction, if it is a satisfaction, that you have rendered a blow against law enforcement and given aid and encouragement to the people who would flout the law. In all probability they will commend you. I cannot. The clerk will give you your vouchers." Like suck-egg dogs, the jurors slunk out of the room, their eyes on the floor...
...challenged a few decades ago by the development of "higher criticism," which held that such histories were written centuries after the events took place, or at least were copies of copies of old histories. But last week diggers in Palestine found something that seemed to uphold Kings, flout the higher critics...