They argued that the law contravened two articles in Singapore's constitution: Article 9, which guarantees that "no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with the law", and Article 12, the first section of which states, "All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law .The result was not entirely surprising.
Stage your strategy to have a correct balance of commitment and flexibility: Commitment (of resources) and flexibility (variations) are inversely proportionate and more often than not, they are malefic to each other (jumping in contravenes edging in, one toe at a time).
Legal problems with databases were brought into sharp relief when the European Court of Human Rights ruled in December that holding the DNA of innocent people contravened article eight of the Human Rights Convention, covering the right to respect for private and family life.
Payne was charged with contravening two separate laws and could have faced a suspension of at least five weeks if he had been found guilty of both offences.
Borrowed words contravene two principles of the language: one, that each syllable is a minimal lexicogrammatical unit (a morpheme); two, that the parts of a compound word define each other by mutual selection in some identifiable semantic relationship, most typically one of hyponymy like the long neck deer.
It seems to contravene two regulations.
I encouraged readers to complain, on the grounds that the BBC's failure to disclose his interests in the issue he was discussing flatly contravenes three of its editorial guidelines.
In one significant respect, however, the idea of truth values contravenes traditional approaches to truth by bringing to the forefront the problem of its categorial classification.
The Wall Street Rule is objectionable from a tax policy perspective when aggressive tax lawyers sanction a deal structure that contravenes the rules, or one that resides in a gray area but is contrary to what Congress intended.
French publishers also claim the agreement will contravene laws in their homeland.
