Sentence examples for contravene the act from inspiring English sources

Breslin insisted today he had not realised it could contravene the act.

But both Strick van Linschoten and Michael Innes of Thesigers, the consultancy representing the Taliban Sources project, insisted there was no material within the archive that would contravene the act.

(a) It would contravene the Act's legislative purpose if judicial review by way of injunctive relief under FOIA were allowed to interrupt the process of bargaining that inheres in the statutory renegotiation scheme and would delay the Government's recovery of excessive profits.

For instance, anything deemed likely to contravene the Act is prohibited from videos awarded an R18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification.

"The commission does not make legal determinations about whether something has contravened the act – that can only be done by a federal court," he said.

In 2011 journalist Andrew Bolt was found to have contravened the act for saying white-skinned Aboriginal people were exploiting their ethnicity to further their careers.

They had been persuaded to suspend legal challenges to the Bush-era rule which appears to contravene the Clean Air Act (CAA) under which it falls on the understanding that Mr Obama would fix it.

The British Library said that, "although the archive was recognised as being of research value, it was judged that it contained some material which could contravene the Terrorism Act [2006], and which would present restrictions on the library's ability to provide access to the archive for researchers".

It is a tactic he was forced to use, retrospectively, for his own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to persuade the judiciary that his new projecting stone facade did not contravene the Building Act, as was claimed by the officious district surveyor.

This might come as a surprise, but according to the Royal Mint, 1p and 2p coins are legal tender only if you are paying for something costing 20p or less: once you have amassed 21 or more 1p pieces, your coins contravene the Coinage Act 1971 if used in a single transaction.

His main argument is that it's all about ratings, even if the programme does contravene the Trade Descriptions Act.