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a minor offense- an infraction like a speeding ticket
- A photo is taken of the car in the intersection with the red light. The violator can see the infraction photo online and determine if they want to challenge the citation.
- Their violation falls under the Level Three Infractions, 'fighting with another student.'Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
- He was exceedingly careful not to commit any minor traffic infraction.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- I will not wage war against Earth for this infraction.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- "Gross rifle—SMI," he said to the guidon corporal, who marked down my infraction.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- It only takes one infraction, one whiff of scandal, to ruin your reputation and your chances forever.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- 'Chaplain,' he continued, looking up, 'we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don't even know about yet.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- Then people can't say you're attacking them to excuse your own infractions."Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- According to state law, any speeding infraction over a hundred miles an hour earned the driver an immediate escort to jail.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- How many before him had gotten this far only to get sent back for some stupid infraction?Junot Diaz -- Drown
- And the Volturi's response to this kind of infraction was so automatic, it was already decided.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- In Plaszow, I would have been shot or at least lashed for such a blatant infraction, for being "a lazy and irresponsible" Jew.Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
- He who punishes infractions of the law is therefore the real master of society.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- He d heard that any infraction against the royal house was punishable by death to the perpetrator s entire family.Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
- Number 50: Periodic Conventions to Correct InfractionsAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Bratton turned the transit police into an organization focused on the smallest infractions, on the details of life underground.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower, it was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- Her fuse was as short as I had seen it, and the smallest infractions—a cupboard door left open, crumbs on the counter—would set her off.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
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