Why should I be carried out of the country where I had violated the law?
I am not fit to be in office--my heart is too tender; I can't keep from sympathizing with the weak and helpless, even when they have violated the law.
Mothers were violated in the presence of their daughters, raped over and over again by different men, while their daughters were compelled, not only to watch, but to sing obscene songs and to dance.
In his time the Northumbrians, meditating a renewal of hostilities, violated the treaty which they had made with Athelstan, and created Anlaf, whom they had recalled from Ireland, their king.
His savage nature, however, did not let him remain long in this resolution, for he violated his oath, and irritated his lord.
It was of course notorious that this principle had never been recognized by the Provincial Administration, but Mr. Baldwin was of opinion that the constitution had been systematically violated in this particular.
It was the idea of violated Imperial faith; of a broken compact between the Sovereign and his Canadian subjects, that constituted the sting of the injury.
All this was done with the cognizance and assent of the Lieutenant-Governor, who thereby wilfully violated the instructions which he had received from the Home Office.
The privacy of families was violatedby the intrusion of informers and their agents.
The Sieur de Carrouges being absent in the Holy Land, his lady wasviolated by the Sieur Legris.
Henry's ecclesiastical appointments were not simoniacal in fact, although they violatedthe papal decrees against simony.
He violatedhis pledges respecting the two captive princes.
In such cases, no difficulty arises, and no principle isviolated in excluding the prohibited articles and refusing to forward them.
Sherman's sense of military honor was violated and shocked by the orders disregarding his truce, which were "cordially approved" by the Secretary of War.
In the famous Northern Securities merger he presented a test case to the Supreme Court which ultimately opened the way for the prosecution of the other great corporations which had violated the Sherman Anti-trust Law.
Secrecy had become a cardinal principle in all inquisitorial proceedings and it was violated by calling in a dozen laymen to see the prisoner, to hear the charges against him and to participate in the judgement to be passed upon him.
With these the Inquisition had nothing to do, as its censorship was concerned only with books after publication, and its treatment of those who violated its rules was much more moderate.
For ten years after the death of Menendez peace nominally subsisted between England and Spain, but it was a peace that was violated every day.
But here our panegyric must cease; for no preux knight would, like Francis, have pledged his solemn word to observe a treaty, and immediately afterwards have violated it.
He made many arrangements with the Moors, to the credit of his ingenuity, rather than of his honour; for he violated them all as soon as his purposes were accomplished.
The Duke of Orleans replied that the public truce had been violated by Henry himself, when he made war upon Richard the ally of France.
With hands lifted up to heaven, they thanked the tutelar gods of their city, for having avenged the sanctity of the temples and tombs, which had been so brutally violated by these barbarians.
Whoever had violated this secresy, was avoided as a wretch accursed and excommunicated.
He violated it when he took you into hiding, using our pursuit after his treachery as justification.
After the attack on Nunami failed and the council was once again to be held, each having violated it equally, my fears were suddenly aroused on your behalf.
A deep silence ensued; after which the speaker called on the right honourable secretary to retract an expression which he must know violated the rules and orders of the house.
Franklin in a strain of bitter invective, on the ground of having violated private confidence in the disclosure of the letters.
The administrators on the Gold Coast having taken part in the quarrels of the natives, and violated the terms of a treaty concluded some years before with the Ashantee monarch, he led a well-appointed army against them.
Utterly faithless in his own character, he violated his oath when the opportunity of power permitted.
As soon as the proceedings were known in England, all ranks were inflamed with resentment, and eagerly desired that the national honour, thus grossly violated should be avenged.
He thought not; he thought the bill violated both the principles and practice of the constitution.
Baillie, who described the measure of government as causing general dissatisfaction; and asserted that, while it violated the principle of refusing encouragement to the foreign slave-trade, it gave but partial advantages to the British people.
In reply, Wilkes declared that the rights of all the members had been violated in his person, and he requested that the question of privilege should be at once taken into consideration.
The Austrians at last violated the Sardinian territory, and France declared war.
This compact, however, was shamefully violated by congress, under pretence that Forster had treated the prisoners taken at the Cedars in a barbarous manner--a pretence which was utterly unfounded.
Should it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the States are parties, will have been willfullyviolated by one portion of them in a provision essential to the domestic security and happiness of the remainder.
Bayard of Delaware argued that the proposed measure violated the Constitution.
In their judgment it violated every principle of right.
He had taken an oath to support the Constitution, and he believed this billviolated it.
His colleague, Mr. Mallory, implored the people of the North not to repeat the fatal folly of the Bourbons by imagining that "the South would submit to the degradation of a constrained existence under a violated Constitution.
Awkwardly constructed, misconstrued and violated by both parties, it was about to be formally broken.
Strangely enough both parties violated the practice in the exciting canvass of 1828, when Jackson and Calhoun were the candidates of the Democratic party and Adams and Rush were the candidates of the National Republican party.
So he violated the law of the State to engage in a transaction unsanctioned by his judgment, not ready to defy the general taste in a matter where the standard was still that of the pioneer community.
A malefactor who violated the statute against card playing, after imprisonment, turned his back on Kentucky, swearing "that it was the meanest country a white man ever got into.
Walpole, on the ground that the Maroons hadviolated the treaty by a slight want of punctuality in complying with its terms, and by remissness in restoring the fugitive slaves who had taken refuge among them.
Not a rebel ever turned traitor or informer, ever flinched in battle or under torture, ever violated a treaty or even a private promise.
It is painful to add, that this promise was outrageously violated by the Colonial Government, to the lasting grief of Gen.
The English have violated our treaty, just after it was ratified, by taking away our negroes, and since by holding our posts; they have also set the savages on our backs, and have not they let loose the Algerines upon us?
The United States having violated that Treaty, there was no other way than commencing a negotiation.
The question was, had the Secretary violated a law?
A law making appropriations may be violated in various particulars without infringing on the constitution, which only enjoins that no moneys shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of the appropriations made by law.
The Secretary is charged with having violated a law, by paying the interest due on a loan out of the principal of that loan.
Faithful to ourselves, we haveviolated no obligation to others.
The only article of the Treaty of Peace which it was said had been violated by the British Government, and was not provided for by the present Treaty, was that which respected the negroes and other property of the American inhabitants.
The lives of the two who were brought back were made miserable by the abuse heaped upon them by their fellow prisoners for having violated the confidence placed in them.
But after you have thoroughly mastered his manhood by brutality--after you have violated the inner sanctuary of the divine spirit which abides in every man, however degraded--what then?
In the evening, after his failure to get the doctor, Lavinsky created some disturbance by calling out remarks which violated the quiet of the cell-block.
They have violated the tombs to remove the jewels of the dead, have demolished edifices to secure stone for building purposes, and Mussulman hatred of chiseled figures has shattered the sculptures.
Many violated this oath and returned; but the rest continued the voyage and after many adventures came to Marseilles.
The Trojans haveviolated a truce sanctioned by a solemn sacrifice to the gods.
He kills Pandarus, who had violated the truce, and wounds first Venus and then Mars.
For charged with violated oaths we fight, And hope I none conceive that aught by us Design'd shall prosper, unless so be done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
