Mr. Munim was also accused of pressuring a bank official to ignore allied procedures for paying salaries and of jailing several people who had committed no crimes.

After all," he said, taking on a mock Russian accent, "everyone knows how dangerous it is to ignore safety warnings and procedures.

These tribunals (known as troikas), had often ignored laws and procedures.

"It is urgent that China's central leadership not look the other way when local courts and law enforcement officials ignore China's laws and legal procedures with impunity," the letter said.

The other, an anesthesiologist, had ignored proper procedures in two cases in which the patients died.

He said some had been caused by mechanical failure, some by ignoring proper procedures and others by human error.

"It is quite astonishing that you would choose to ignore our rules and procedures," Ms. Lynch told J. P. Shotwell, Southern California Edison's regulatory lawyer.

Mr. Mbuli's lawyers did demonstrate that the police had ignored correct procedures for lineups.

"We must ignore normal surgical procedures," Lugovoy patiently answered.

Orbit control tracked, but failed to intercept, the streaking ship that ignored all departure procedures and conventions.