The Mayor's threat plainly violates the tenor of the 1998 Supreme Court ruling in a case brought by several artists.

"That law plainly violated the Constitution," McReynolds said stubbornly.

The new law, which permits the President to cancel individual spending and tax items in appropriations bills he has already signed into law, plainly violates the constitutional separation of powers.

And so it struck down state regulations intended to prevent fraud in the sale of kosher foods, saying they "plainly violate constitutional standards" by entangling government and religion.

In its purchase of self-aggrandizing agitprop, the administration plainly violated the law against spreading "covert propaganda" at public expense, according to the report of the Government Accountability Office.

Mr. Abrams said today that in his opinion relocating the collection outside the state "would plainly violate the terms of the trust."

The judge said the regulation "plainly violates" the tax treaty and he characterized the reasoning behind it as "fundamentally flawed."

Leapor's suggestion that a house which so plainly violates the natural order will eventually be deserted recalls Pope's prediction concerning Timon's villa:

In sum, Verizon plainly violates the C Block rules when it seeks deliberately to limit user choice in the market for mobile applications.

While this somewhat ameliorated the performance issues, it plainly violates the minimality concept of a true microkernel (and squanders their major advantages).