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  • verb Present participle of infract.

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Examples

  • Under authority of the French Government there is yet pursued against the United States a system of predatory violence, infracting the said treaties and hostile to the rights of a free and independent nation.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes 1878

  • Thus, unless the theory is understood in its psych­ological, social, economic and political background, it cannot be put to use in an infracting form in order to be of real value for the formulation of a nationalist and patriotic theory for our country.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • This post clearly is infracting the "no affiliate" rule, and might be considered as spam.

    Webmaster-Talk.com 2009

  • This post clearly is infracting the "no affiliate" rule, and might be considered as spam.

    Webmaster-Talk.com 2009

  • 17, 1808, Napoleon issued a decree at Bayonne directing that all American vessels which might enter the ports of France, Italy, and the Hanse towns should be seized, "because no vessels of the United States can now navigate the seas without infracting the law of the said States."

    Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Albert Bushnell Hart 1898

  • Our objects were defeated and your interests injured, therefore, when the Spanish Government required the departure from this country of those who, by other acts and deeds wholly distinct from the distribution of Bibles and Testaments, had been infracting the Laws, Civil and Ecclesiastical. "

    The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

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