violated

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Here is #ZTE timeline: Violated U.S. sanction laws & got caught lying & covering up.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2018

With his "Native Son" already a Broadway success, release of Orson Welles' film "Citizen Kane" was held over two months following rumors that it: 1, Violated the Hays code.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Author Bourjaily, who has been praised for the lyricism and fantasy of such novels as The End of My Life, The Violated, this is a departure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Irish memory, curiously enough, seems always to grow clearer with the passing years, and the mists of two centuries accentuate, rather than obscure, the fame of Limerick as "The City of the Violated Treaty."

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Violated Nature rebels, and avenges herself for all infractions of law.

From Style in Singing by Haslam, W. E.