VIOLATES

Definition: VIOLATES

VIOLATES

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Violate

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VIOLATES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Crosswords: VIOLATES

All I know is that this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

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Books

• The Liberal Contradiction: How Contemporary Liberalism Violates Its Own Principles and Endangers Its Own Goals (reference)

• What Violates the Right to Privacy (reference)

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Two African American women picketing a theatre. Their signs read "This theatre violates the morals of womanhood" and "This theatre insults our mothers", Oklahoma City?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But yet it is to be observed, that though oaths of allegiance and fealty are taken to him, it is not to him as supreme legislator, but as supreme executor of the law, made by a joint power of him with others; allegiance being nothing but an obedience according to law, which when he violates, he has no right to obedience, nor can claim it otherwise than as the public person vested with the power of the law, and so is to be considered as the image, phantom, or representative of the common-wealth, acted by the will of the society, declared in its laws; and thus he has no will, no power, but that of the law. (Second Treatise of Government)

In case Germany violates in any manner whatever the provisions of Articles 42 and 43, she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act against the Powers signatory of the present Treaty and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world. (reference)

This disposition makes unnecessary any discussion whether such segregation also violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (reference)

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Despotism violates the moral frontier, as invasion violates the geographical frontier

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Children

Ghana

Another traditional practice that violates the rights of children is forced childhood marriage, which is illegal. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jordan

The High Court of Justice may dissolve a party if it violates the Constitution or the Political Parties Law. (references)

Singapore

Once registered as a political Web site, an entity may face sanctions, including fines, if it violates the SBA's Code of Practice. (references)

Discrimination

Iraq

The Constitution and the legal system provide for some rights for women, children, and minorities; however, in practice the Government systematically violates these rights. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

They also allege that the civil service code violates internationally recognized rights to collective bargaining. (references)

Bulgaria

All foreign judgments are handled by the Sofia City Court, which must determine that the judgment does not violates public decrees, standards or morals before the foreign judgment can be executed. (references)

Human Rights

Laos

Their detention without trial, now in its 3rd year, violates the 1-year statutory limit. (references)

Belgium

Several human rights organizations claim that summary trial violates the presumption of innocence and jeopardizes the right to a full and fair defense. (references)

Laos

The Penal Code generally protects privacy, including that of mail, telephone, and electronic correspondence; however, the government violates such legal protections. (references)

Political Economy

UKRAINE

This aspect of the 1999 trade union law violates the ILO's Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, to which Ukraine is a party. (references)

BULGARIA

However, Podkrepa has complained that a 1998 law denying workers the right to appeal government decisions on the legality of strikes is unconstitutional and violates an ILO convention. (references)

SWEDEN

Still, there are some minor restrictions of the rights granted under Swedish Copyright Laws that violates Sweden's national treatment obligations arising from the Berne Convention and the TRIPS agreement. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

The Government's refusal to issue exit visas to some opposition figures violates the pact's principle of freedom of travel. (references)

East Timor

Under UNTAET regulations, Indonesian law applies throughout East Timor, except in areas in which UNTAET specifically has repealed laws, superseded them with its own regulations, or where Indonesian law violates international human rights standards. (references)

Worker Rights

Saudi Arabia

The Ministry may dissolve a labor committee if it violates regulations or threatens public security. (references)

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Chinese 

违犯 (infringe, Infringed, Infringing, Violate, violated, Violating). (various references)

French

viole (viol). (various references)

German

übertritt (conversion, crossing, defection, passes over, stile, transgresses, trespasses). (various references)

Indonesian

pengoyak (one who tears or violates). (various references)

Korean 

위반한다. (various references)

Pig Latin

iolatesvay.(various references)

Misspellings

"VIOLATES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Vaelaes, vilayets, violacea, violae, violater, violette, voilate, volate, voliate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: estival, isolate, solvate, violate, violets.

-2 letters: avoset, livest, loaves, lovats, olives, osteal, saltie, silvae, solate, soviet, stelai, toiles, valets, valise, vestal, vilest, violas, violet, vitals, voiles, voltes.

-3 letters: aisle, alist, alive, aloes, altos, aviso, evils, iotas, islet, istle, laevo, laves, least, litas, lives, lotas, lovat, loves, oaves, olive, ostia, ovals, ovate, salve, salvo.

+1 letter: bloviates, dovetails, locatives, ovalities, violaters, volatiles.

+2 letters: absolutive, antinovels, elevations, jovialties, lavatories, vocalities, volatilise.

+3 letters: alleviators, coevalities, copulatives, devotionals, eluviations, evaluations, jovialities, levigations, levitations, novaculites, oversalting, revelations, sporulative, ventilators, vexatiously, vibratoless, volatilised, volatilises, volatilizes, voluntaries, vorticellas.

+4 letters: advertorials, alleviations, antinovelist, appositively, cocultivates, consultative, correlatives, countervails, devaluations, dorsiventral, festivalgoer, lovabilities, malversation, movabilities, nonrelatives, overinflates, postmedieval, revaluations, ultraviolets, valedictions, ventilations, vesiculation, viscoelastic, volatileness, volatilities, voluptuaries.