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violate

(vī′ĕ-lāt″) [L. violare, to injure]

To harm or injure a person, esp. to rape a female.

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The Court held that the state housing agency's trespass policy did not violate the First Amendment's over breadth doctrine because neither the basis for the barment sanction, a prior trespass, nor its purpose, preventing future trespasses, implicates the First Amendment.

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Finally, he charges that since the treaty rules out development, testing and deployment of anything but a fixed, landbased system at one designated site in each country, SDI is bound to violate the treaty in other areas soon if it hasn't already.