transgress
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“What the Israelis realized quickly was that, even as Israel was beginning to transgress the red lines, Hezbollah was sticking very studiously to the rules of engagement,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
Taking these points together, it becomes clear that the ordinary bounds of judicial review are capacious, and it would be extraordinarily rare for a state court to transgress them.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2024
“It could be another previous life, or some harm done to you, or a lack of self-knowledge that makes us transgress on our worldview,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
Before the weekend, race director Michael Masi has highlighted in his event notes clauses in F1's regulations that give governing body the FIA the power to take points off drivers if they transgress.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021
His views about the white man were devastating, but at no time did he transgress against my own personality and make me feel that I, as an individual, shared in the guilt.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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It just said there might be an egregious example “when a state court transgresses the bounds of ordinary judicial review.”
From Salon ● May 11, 2024
“How do you know who you are when your primal love bond is formed with someone who then transgresses and violates it?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2021
But the word still pinpoints that which transgresses human decency.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2018
In timeouts and during practices, Brooks has shown his more colorful side when the team transgresses his “non-negotiables” — for example, not playing hard.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2017
The hypocrite who cloaks his knavery is less dangerous to the commonwealth than he who transgresses in the face of day.
From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Both productions also transgressed personal boundaries that pushed Panettiere to lows no one should endure, but so many stars growing up in the spotlight unfortunately do.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We are eager to hold accountable those who transgressed and abused our Druze people because they are under the protection and responsibility of the state," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Battle lines are drawn and immediately transgressed in a play that takes farce out of the bedroom and into administrative corridors and cubicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
“But if you transgressed . . . by trying to present yourself as somewhat above your station intellectually, then that is the end.”
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax’s feelings to Frank Churchill.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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“Already in that early school exercise, he was transgressing all the principles that we knew.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
On the other hand, with “Alice Sadie Celine,” we are not talking about transgressing the long-gone mores of the 1950s and ’60s.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
The lawsuit also claims that Chop’t did not dispute the fine, which was for transgressing a rule that food service establishments must “operate their premises in such a way as to avoid imminent health hazards.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
The summer of 2023, which was the hottest in recorded history, served as a potent reminder of the consequences of transgressing planetary limits.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
You disregarded him and called to your side that transgressing fool the Ephesian, the son of Apsimar, and his like.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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