Over the past few months, political prisoners have been denied adequate medical treatment and regular visits by family, in contravention of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by Iran.
Haydn and Beethoven prospered by sly contraventions of them.
In England a deceased may dispose of his entire estate by will to the detriment of his spouse and children, subject however to contravention by a court upon petition of the spouse or children if they are not adequately provided for.
There has been "no contravention" by BNP Paribas "of these rules nor, indeed, of the rules established by the United Nations".
On Nov. 25, 1992, the European Court of Justice found the British government guilty of having failed to achieve promised improvements in drinking-water quality by 1985, in contravention of the 1980 directive on drinking-water quality.
The EFA's first report found that Nolan was paid an additional salary via a company named Nexus, which then made payments to another company, Liam Nolan Ltd, run by Nolan, in contravention of academies' financial rules and Treasury guidelines.
The agreement noted attacks on neutral shipping by submarines, in contravention of the London Naval Treaty (signed in 1930) and the Submarine Protocol, part of the Second London Naval Treaty (signed in 1936).
After four months in jail, the 46-year-old municipal inspector said she was only trying to move him along from trading in front of the municipal buildings, in contravention of local by-laws.
Efficient aid delivery is slowed down by internal government squabbles, and occasionally the government refuses to assist people in areas controlled by the Taliban, in contravention of humanitarian principles, he said.
I felt the same way when another outrageous bit of news came to light this year: the decades-old, Okinawa-related secret agreement entered into by the United States and Japan in contravention of the third of the three nonnuclear principles, which forbids bringing nuclear weapons into Japan.
