gross violation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrossandviolation
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gross
adjective
adverb
uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/
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violation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
an action that breaks or acts against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated ...
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(Definition ofgrossandviolationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unjust wars signify agrossviolationof justice and threaten to tear apart the moral fabric of the community.
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Is not this agrossviolationof the rules of elementary decency?
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Is that not agrossviolationof the principle of police impartiality in industrial disputes?
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That is agrossviolationof the rule of law.
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It is anothergrossviolationof international justice.
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This measure will lead to agrossviolationof personal privacy.
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Can anybody doubt that this is agrossviolationof the spirit of our law?
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Would we not take steps to deal with this as agrossviolationof civil liberties?
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We can no longer ignore the horrors that were committed ingrossviolationof international law.
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The urgency resolutions that result from these have highlighted serious flaws in policy on individual and wider crises which is agrossviolationof human dignity.
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It may be said that the reality of this picture is more reassuring, that the instances ofgrossviolationare rare.
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This ban is agrossviolationof the terms of the truce, and it would only be sensible to take clear action on this matter.
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If the scale is set very low, as a result of which there isgrossviolation, the administration becomes impossible.
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Only a few months ago, a joint resolution condemning thegrossviolationof human rights in that country was passed unanimously.
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All those actions would be regarded as agrossviolationof his civil liberties, post-acquittal, if they were not to happen as part of the process of a possible retrial.
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There is a continuous andgrossviolationof the delicate system of checks and balances that characterise democracy.
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On any view, that must be regarded as agrossviolationof the principles of natural justice.
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