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The phrase "as contravening" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing something that goes against or violates a rule, law, or agreement.
Example: "The actions taken by the company were deemed as contravening the established regulations."
Alternatives: "as violating" or "as breaching".
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A labor court ordered Germany to pay a man indentured by the Nazis $78,000, but Germany rejected the ruling as contravening international law.
Permitted pro-Palestinian demonstrations elsewhere passed off peacefully, prompting some to say that banning the demonstrations in Paris was provocative as well as contravening the right to free speech.
In the US, the decision to find Knox guilty after she had been cleared was seen as contravening protections against defendants being tried more than once for the same crime, or double jeopardy.
And now add the fact that Palestine has been granted U.N. status as a "nonmember observer state," so President Mahmoud Abbas is positioned to ask the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel's settlement activities in the West Bank, which are widely viewed as contravening international law.
In African settings more specifically, active refusal has been seen as the result of fear campaigns attempting to undermine national health initiatives, sometimes for a partisan purpose, or alternatively under the influence of religious or moral African leaders who, again, see vaccination as contravening their fundamental doctrinal principles [ 8, 10, 11, 13- 15].
While, at the European level, bulk collection legislation was overturned by the European Court of Justice, back in April 2014 which also judged bulk intercept powers as contravening fundamental privacy and human rights.
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The definition of 'Confidential Information' should be understood in a way that favours disclosure as much as possible without contravening this Policy.
Policy Exchange essentially wants "extremist literature" that could be interpreted as potentially contravening British law, to be banned.
"This law, as well as its predecessors, contravenes Russia's own constitution as well as numerous international laws and treaties.
And surely to God those criminally loud blazers he used to sport during the station's early days constituted a sackable offence, contravening as they must have done all manner of health and safety regulations.
Although the healthy smoker control group might be described as an "extreme" phenotype, and their use as controls contravenes traditional epidemiological views of controls that requires a "representative" sample, they are actually representative of the majority of chronic smokers (60%70%%) 6, 7 who are "resistant" or "low responders".
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