flagrant violation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofflagrantandviolation
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flagrant
adjective
uk/ˈfleɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈfleɪ.ɡrənt/
(of a bad action, situation, person, etc.) shocking because of being ...
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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 offlagrantandviolationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We cannot imagine a moreflagrantviolationof the parliamentary mandate.
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Thisflagrantviolationof our basic environmental laws must not be allowed to continue.
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This is aflagrantviolationof international human rights.
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It is a mostflagrantviolationof toleration.
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All over the country, large stores are opening inflagrantviolationof the law.
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This is aflagrantviolationof international law, and that cannot be gainsaid.
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In 1987 there was aflagrantviolationof the law.
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It was aflagrantviolationof the law of trespass.
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All this is inflagrantviolationof the law.
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Impunity cannot and must not exist in cases of suchflagrantviolationof human rights.
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As a matter of principle, this is aflagrantviolationof their freedom of movement.
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This is aflagrantviolationof human dignity.
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The phenomenon represents aflagrantviolationof human dignity.
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That is aflagrantviolationof all the undertakings we have given.
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It was aflagrantviolationof customary international law.
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We did not, however, regard it as aflagrantviolation.
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We cannot continue to accept thisflagrantviolationof human rights and of the dignity of the women and girls involved, under the guise of national customs and traditions.
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Our citizens have been deprived of their rights, and there has been a brutal andflagrantviolationof international law.
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And company names should be publicized when they are guilty offlagrantviolationof the animal rights.
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That constituted aflagrantviolationof the humanitarian conventions, and without any other resources, we were not in a position to force access.
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