Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Violating; tending to or causing violation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Violating, or tending to violate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US Tending to
violate ; of or relating toviolation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective violating or tending to violate or offend against
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Examples
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This legislation reinvigorated the CPSC and established a strong consumer product safety net that the American public demanded after the "Year of the Recall" in 2007, when millions of violative toys were recalled from American consumers.
Inez Moore Tenenbaum: Keeping a Strong Safety Net in Place for Children Inez Moore Tenenbaum 2011
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This legislation reinvigorated the CPSC and established a strong consumer product safety net that the American public demanded after the "Year of the Recall" in 2007, when millions of violative toys were recalled from American consumers.
Inez Moore Tenenbaum: Keeping a Strong Safety Net in Place for Children Inez Moore Tenenbaum 2011
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If you have this problem in the future, you are welcome to email me and I'll post your comment for you if it is not abusive or otherwise violative of the comments policy.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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Of 23 pesticides designated by the EPA and FDA as high risk, the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service only tests for one -- and in just six months, four carcasses with "violative levels of veterinary drugs" were released onto the public dinner plate.
Martha Rosenberg: Pesticides in Your Toothpaste and Other Legal Dangers Martha Rosenberg 2011
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MGM (Male Genital Mutilation) is a cruel, painful, mutilating, torturous, violative act without valid medical benefit that not only contravenes the UN Charter but also violates every principle of human kindness and medical ethics in every civilized country in the world.
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"A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment," he wrote.
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Alabama's law, which withholds a host of rights from illegal aliens, was overwhelmingly upheld by a federal district court as constitutional and not violative of any preemption right of the federal government.
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Alabama's law, which withholds a host of rights from illegal aliens, was overwhelmingly upheld by a federal district court as constitutional and not violative of any preemption right of the federal government.
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Thus, if the HCR insurance mandate is violative of the 1A federally, it would stand to reason that state car insurance mandates, through the 14th Amendment, would also be unconstitutional.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Chances Courts Would Strike Down the Individual Mandate 2010
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League of Women Voters removed the comment as being violative of its guidelines.
Robert Davenport 2010
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