This introduction of the final couplet was a violation of the Italian rule, which may be fairly considered as prejudicial to the harmony of the whole structure, and which has insensibly caused the English sonnet to terminate in an epigram.
The honours of this victory, disgraced by a brutal sack of the conquered city, in violation of its articles of capitulation, were reserved for Lorenzo, who returned in triumph to Florence.
It would be a violation of the guarantees of personal liberty, a holding of the just rights of the laity of the Church.
Can this be done without an utter violation of law?
This was in violation of my parole, but I could not help that.
A daily detail was made for fatigue duty, and any violation of the rules promptly reported.
Study of the evolution of rate sheets clearly shows how such grouping of charges over long distances may be in the nature of a compromise to avoid actual violation of the long and short haul principle.
This has been the main excuse for the persistent violation of the long and short haul clause by carriers in the southern states down to the present time.
Still a third, and probably a valid, defense of this violation of the distance principle by the use of basing points, is the paucity of local business.
Violation of the distance principle must properly always be determined by comparison between rates of the same kind.
The roundabout line can compete at Y only by a violation of it, unless, indeed, its local tariffs be graded much more gradually.
The carriers, therefore, must become the advancing party in proving that violation of the distance principle was warranted by the necessities of the case.
Two plans were possible to mitigate the violationof the distance principle.
Thereupon the Iron Company obtained an injunction from the United States Circuit Court prohibiting the violation of the Commission's order.
But now a penalty of $5,000 a day for each day's violation of the order, began at the expiration of thirty days.
The Federal courts tinkered with the subject for a while, until the Circuit Court of Appeals, while recognizing a probable violation of law, affirmed that suit could be legally instituted only by the United States.
Its most unsatisfactory feature is its complete violation of the distance principle.
In the excitement of the hour a gendarme on duty in the prison corridor answered his questions through the peep-hole, in violation of regulations.
For my own part, I consider those laws as merely an experiment on the American mind, to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
The violation of all the laws of order and morality which bind mankind together, would be an unacceptable offering to a just nation.
The seizing her was a flagrant violation of the jurisdiction of the United States.
This daring violation of the laws requires the more attention, as it is by a foreigner clothed with a public character, arrogating an unfounded right to admiralty jurisdiction, and probably meaning to assert it by this act of force.
Let this be the last, as it has been the first, violation of your pledge.
I have taken an oath not to drink for six months, and the violation of that oath is, for one of my views and feelings, a moral impossibility.
You would not have me add the sin of a doubleviolation of a solemn pledge to my already overburdened conscience?
Gladly would the writer draw a veil over all that followed that insane violation of a solemn pledge, sealed as it had been by the hand-writing of confirmation.
The Mexican general reminded us that it was a violation of the truce for us to be there.
The publication of his order in the press was in violation of War Department orders and also of mine.
It scarcely needs to be asserted that in most of these cases the violation of idiom arose from haste or carelessness.
For these very reasons his appointment to it would have been in violation of the traditional policy of the government.
I trust you will take fitting measures to punish so bold and insolent a violation of the rules of your department.
Dear Colonel:-- I am writing to call your attention to a gross violation of Sanitary Ordinance No.
I do not regard the supernatural as an interference with, or violation of, the order of the universe.
It is, after all, the absence of moral and honourable feeling in the world in general which makes the violation of these not only condoned by others but frequently profitable to the sinners.
All who love Rome and loathe her modern violation must thank him from their hearts for such passages, and must mourn with him that we cannot drive out the spoilers from our desecrated temples.
In an age which prates more than any other of its pride in education, the violation of every law of taste, of every tie of association, of every rule of beauty, is always greedily welcomed with a barbaric shout of triumph.
Not pity for the slave, but indignation at the violationof the Moral Law by Daniel Webster, was at the bottom of Emerson's anger.
This cannot be admitted except as to particular instances in which his success is due to his conformity to law, not to his violation of it.
They are much more explicit, and the pains and penalties for the violation of them are now absolutely unholy in their truculence.
Conanchet, their sachem, in violation of the treaty, had not only received Philip's warriors, but aided their operations against the English.
The colonial House of Assembly denounced this act as a violation of its rights, and determined to desist from its legislative functions.
In our republic, a woman has been found to expiate, by a voluntary death, a violation which was inflicted on her by force; and a man to kill his daughter to save her from being ravished.
It is a violation of the pledge upon which statehood was granted; they profit by it.
But in focusing our attention upon the violations of the code, we are apt to forget the greater atrocity of the violation of Belgium, and the whole hideous atrocity of the great war.
The violation of Belgium kindled a fire against the invaders which the successive cruelties served to fan into a flaming resentment.
Such a violation of the rights of neutrals can only be undertaken by a nation that feels it has nothing to fear from their rising against it.
The common fighting ground for the opposition to all the three was the invasion of the charters and privileges of the various provinces which these measures necessarily involved, and the consequent violation of the King's coronation oath.
Of course this has been a violation of the armistice, for it was mutually agreed that neither side should continue offensive fortification work, or push closer, and that violation would entail a reopening of rifle and gun fire.
The commandant was on hand, helping to complete the disguises of the Acadians, and he did not choose that any of his men should be able to say they had seen him give personal countenance to a violation of the treaty.
To have done so would have been a violation of the existing treaty between France and England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
