Dozens of athletes have openly flouted the rules around marketing in social media.

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Some banks which performed best during the crisis flouted the rules of good corporate governance: Santander had a familial culture and a powerful executive chairman.

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In August last year, the Supreme Court upheld SEBI's 2011 order directing Sahara to repay its bond holders as it had flouted capital market rules while issuing the bonds.

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Those events led industry officials to promise steps to better police companies that flouted safety rules, according to media reports at the time, but the death toll has continued to mount.

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HSBC's top three managers have all been with the bank for about 25 years, and the company flouted U.K. corporate governance rules, which call for a clear division between chief executive and chairman, by bumping Green up to chairman, from chief executive, after Sir John Bond retired in 2005.

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For example, the city of Moscow (which, with St Petersburg, has the status of a region) has flagrantly flouted a federal ruling that its residency rules are illegal.

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