Word: flout
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...more disturbing are the plans of several athletes to openly flout the new policy and train during the off-weeks anyway. Athletes would be rejecting a unique opportunity to make other positive contributions to the Harvard community through cultural clubs and public service organizations...
...certainly an endangered species. Most countries still hang tough on hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, but when it comes to grass, they go with the flow. Despite lingering strict anticannabis laws--smoking a joint in Britain can technically result in five years in jail--the way millions flout those laws is pushing European governments to adapt...
...much so that Chittister, 65, found a way to flout it that the Vatican could not ignore. The tussle began last spring, when Rome learned that the resident of the Mount St. Benedict monastery in Erie, Pa., had agreed to address the first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept...
...cashier does not recall seeing a handicap permit, but he wasn't bothered by the ritual. In the Hamptons, plenty of people drive luxury cars and flout the rules. As Lizzie Grubman learned last week, it's only when they do something so outrageously emblematic of their type that the simmering cauldron of animosity they've brewed boils over...
...that Indyk improperly took classified material home, talked about sensitive subjects in his car within earshot of his Israeli driver and typed confidential reports on an unclassified laptop computer. State Department sources say Indyk was warned months ago that he was violating regulations but that he allegedly continued to flout them...