Face
Violate
Violate verb - To fail to keep.
Common collocations
| time | face time | violate time |
Both words in one sentence
- In the Red Dwarf episode "Justice", Lister is being chased by a simulant, and they agree to meet face to face, without weapons; both violate the agreement.
Source: Rash Equilibrium - People who violate these two rules either just disappear from the face of the world forever, or their remains require magic to be identified.
Source: A God I Am Not -
Face Death with Dignity: Spock does this in the opening after getting stranded in an active volcano and insisting that the Enterprise cannot violate the Prime Directive to save him.
Source: Film / Star Trek Into Darkness
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