Sentence examples for breach a convention from inspiring English sources

Nato's bombing of Serbian state television that killed 16 civilians during the Kosovo war did not breach a convention on European human rights, a court ruled yesterday.

But he also "strongly deplored the very caricatural tone" of the newspaper towards Islam.Many Muslims will indeed find the cartoons offensive, not least because they breach a convention in Islam that the Prophet should not be depicted.

Why the BBC needs to apologize is, I suppose, because one of its employees has breached a convention.

The results were mixed: one dead, one escaped and one captured using a ruse de guerre that came close to Britain itself breaching a Geneva convention.

Voting down the bill would provoke a constitutional crisis, because it would breach the Salisbury convention that peers do not vote down a manifesto commitment.

The Human Rights Act 1998 requires public authorities to act in a way that does not breach convention rights.

In Australia, the 1975 crisis is noteworthy because it totally breached the convention that an opposition will not block supply.

So the president would wonder whether Romney would breach convention by saying in public that he met the head of MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence agency.

"Ecuador would have to breach the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations," he said.

It was actually industry lawyers who said the proposals could breach the European convention on human rights.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says they breach the Fourth Geneva Convention governing actions on occupied territory, and Mr. Obama has said they aren't legitimate.