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"Contravene" in a Sentence (14 examples)
This would contravene several articles of the Geneva Convention.
Nature feigns to contravene her own laws.
No law enacted by the legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall contravene this Law.
This is the second time that the proposed laws, which have caused anxiety in the private sector, have been found to contravene the heavily amended constitution or other laws.
[…] nothing is a commandement, or a commanded dutie but that which if we contravene, it maketh us guilty of sin before God,
[…] this Article directly contravenes the Treaty with Portugal […]
I have shown that slavery is wicked […] in that it contravenes the laws of eternal justice, and tramples in the dust all the humane and heavenly precepts of the New Testament.
[…] the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions;
It was a construction in wood, with manifold “features” suggestive of the villa, the bungalow, the chateau, the palace; it united all tastes and contravened all conventions.
Some legal experts argue that the bill contravenes Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms. Montreal constitutional lawyer Julius Grey told the Vancouver Sun that Bill 78 was "flagrantly unconstitutional".
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1653, William Birchley, The Christian Moderator, Part 3, London: Richard Lowndes, p. 7, […] to make the contravening of Doctrines, to be capitall, before they be fully proved, is prejudiciall to that liberty, without which none can justify himself before God or Man:
To contravene positions, that have been discussed again and again by writers of the first genius and erudition, and to disparage the genuineness of the bible histories wholly and indiscriminately, without some precision of investigation, some specific allegations, founded on the report of authentic documents, is intolerable arrogance […]
That the detention of the troops was a wise measure, is not to be contravened;
This is a large octavo of more than five hundred pages, a cool, scientific collection of facts that cannot be contravened, leading up to the inescapable conclusion […]
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