Sentence examples for contravene from inspiring English sources

Leck told me: "We would argue strongly that this is a development outside port limits and it does contravene the World Heritage Committee's recommendation around ports".

Here is the full text of the open letter, also published on Medium today: Aggregate data about how Google is responding to the more than 250,000 requests to delist links, thought to contravene data protection laws, from name search results.

A: The answer is probably that something you posted was perceived to contravene the Community Standards, which govern the activity of everyone who contributes to this site.

This would not contravene Nato treaties with Russia by positioning major forces on its borders, Bradshaw said, but would "send a strong signal in the form of a sustained, multinational Nato presence" in the eastern states.

This time around, for example, America has allowed the question of Iraqi oil exports through Syria to be fudged and has not taken action over flights to Baghdad that it says contravene the embargo.

Critics claim that such tests contravene the spirit, if not the letter, of the test-ban treaty.

Such acts are also a sin against God, the preachers will say: they contravene the Prophet's teaching on clemency.The idea of using Muslim sermons to stamp out one of most grisly practices of traditional society, of which dozens of cases still occur every year, belongs to Ali Bardakoglu, the new head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate.

Last April the supreme court decided that they did not contravene constitutional equal-rights provisions which was all that the government had been waiting for.

The government and Chinese spokesmen insist this is just not on, since it would contravene the Basic Law.

Nor can the FSA contravene the EU's regulatory framework.

He cites an exclusion of sceptical views from the literature; a misrepresentation of primary research, and its uncertainties, in some secondary presentations; a lack of openness to requests for information and a willingness to contravene Britain's freedom of information act; a discordance between what the scientists said in private and what they said in public.