When a member has the floor, the chairman cannot interrupt him . . . so long as he does not transgress any of the rules of the assembly.    From LearnThat.org.  [Henry M. Robert (1837 - 1923).  Source:  Robert’s Rules of Order Revised.  1915.]

Today, "transgress" carries an echo of resist, also an always popular notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Not a day passes by, in which we do not transgress.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

I am obliged to transgress, and write myself in the mean time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference

Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 06: Josue The Challoner Revision] Reference

It is a foul (1) to transgress any of the rules given above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

To meditate is to escort gossip ponder transgress withhold 67 68.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference

Children, transgress against the first rule of their construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

Should any one transgress the law, he is punished, not imprisoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dreams Come True] Reference

Fortunately the proportion of men who thus transgress is not large.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference

For it is not in any man's power to constrain thee to transgress against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Theoretically she might transgress, but practically it was all but impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

The boundaries of the State were defined, and it engaged not to transgress them.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Do you expect to escape death if you transgress the laws of which the penalty is death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

She doesn't transgress the study rules, but she is lawless when it comes to the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference

The public wants to see a price exacted against those who transgress the rights of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raising Cain On Values] Reference

The author submits this question because some men are known to transgress this law of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference

Fourthly, that thou thyself doest transgress in many things, and art even such another as they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

And shall we not fall into a worse destruction than any, if we transgress these commands of the king?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

If the public believes that those who transgress will be called to account, its cynicism may ease a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Shame] Reference

Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

It was beyond her knowledge that any man should have the courage so far to transgress conventional usages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference

We hear a great deal about "the vile body;" and many are encouraged by the phrase to transgress the laws of health.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Suppose a child doth grievously transgress against and offend his father; is the relation between them therefore dissolved?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

When our Saviour was insulted by the scribes and Pharisees, saying, "why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference

I judged not that thy decrees had such authority that a man should transgress for them the unwritten sure commandments of the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 16: 2 Esdras The Challoner Revision] Reference

But to particularize the principal papers, even in a short separate notice of a few lines, would far transgress the limits at our disposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference