Sentence examples for This contravenes from inspiring English sources

"This contravenes the whole notion of us being able to assemble objects from different cultures," the curator said.

This contravenes basic economic theory: what is exported must be imported.Up until around 2004, the net global trade balance was negative.

This contravenes the principal meaning of waste minimization, which is to avoid waste generation in the first place (Pongracz 2002).

This contravenes the most typical characteristic of the background, that is, that of being static, and bring such items to being labelled as FG instances.

This contravenes a biomedical understanding that continued breastfeeding is crucial to the development of young children, in particular those suffering from illnesses such as diarrhea.

This contravenes Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) that stipulates that capital punishment should not be imposed for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age".

This contravened international law, and was a travesty of democracy.

And doesn't this contravene Ms. O'Donnell's first intentions?

This contravened good practice for patrols in that area.

This contravened their orders on never giving themselves up, so again had to be ignored.

But things started to go wrong when the company sought a base at the Old Vic in 1977 and there was confusion over whether this contravened the terms of their touring subsidy.