nonobservance

Example Sentences

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The IMF said the Executive Board also granted a waiver of nonobservance of a performance criterion on the stock of net international reserves of the Bank of Uganda.

From Reuters • Jan. 17, 2023

The good news is that they have a memo entirely excusing your nonobservance of the statutory notification requirements for transferring the Guantánamo Five to Qatar.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2014

During the War, air law was mostly honored by nonobservance, and civilians in Europe suffered from air raids and bombardments, law or no law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disobedience -- N. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

The legion of taboos, religious and magic, limits the Man�bo's actions, in no inconsiderable manner, within fixed and definite rules, the nonobservance of which would render him responsible for such evil consequences as might follow.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.