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  • noun Plural form of violator.

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Examples

  • The technology may have changed, but scandal's role remains the same: If communities are enclaves of shared norms, then shaming and shunning norm-violators is part of what makes a community.

    Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to. Laura Kipnis 2010

  • Violators (violators is x out and survivors is written under it) will be prosecuted.

    Shed Poaching? 2008

  • The University of Wisconsin went against the national trends Friday by warning students about its policy regarding illegal file sharing but refusing to forward settlement letters to violators from the Recording Industry Association of America.

    March 20th, 2007 2007

  • None of the violators, in other words, have been punished.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • None of the violators, in other words, have been punished.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • You’ve also yet to rebut the claim that perhaps HRW covers Israel a lot because Israel, unlike many other human rights violators, is more responsive to criticism, or because Israel, unlike many other human rights violators, has a more open flow of information which is a pre-requisite to generating reports ...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Forthcoming TNR Piece on Human Rights Watch 2010

  • The reason is the violators are my wifes family, but it grinds me so f'in bad and I feel like I'm letting every fellow hunter down by not reporting them.

    I need some advice 2009

  • The Obama Administration last year joined the Human Rights Council after the Bush Administration took America off the UN committee for its lack of action on serious issues and its inability to name violators of human rights.

    Richard Grenell: Susan Rice Refuses to Call Out Libya As They Are Elected to the Human Rights Council 2010

  • The Obama Administration last year joined the Human Rights Council after the Bush Administration took America off the UN committee for its lack of action on serious issues and its inability to name violators of human rights.

    Richard Grenell: Susan Rice Refuses to Call Out Libya As They Are Elected to the Human Rights Council 2010

  • Only a few who are the leaders of those who stir and agitate are outwardly known as violators while the rest, through subtle means, deceive the souls, for outwardly they assert their firmness and steadfastness in the Covenant but when they come across responsive ears they secretly sow the seeds of suspicion.

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

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