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Big-city boys ReprintsTrue, Welfare's willingness to let civil servants wear head-scarves in public offices contravenes a high-court ruling on the subject.

Many have noted that the ads' introduction contravenes a promise made by Marissa Mayer in 2005 when the Yahoo CEO was then Google's vice president of search products and user experience.

Still, the 350-horsepower GTO, which is built in Australia with the body of the Holden Monaro coupe and a Corvette engine (from Canada), contravenes a longtime General Motors policy of not selling gas guzzlers to the general public.

The UN says the current situation "contravenes" a UN security council resolution passed during the war in January, which called for "unimpeded provision and distribution" of humanitarian aid for Gaza.

"Given that Long-Term's characterization contravenes a central purpose" of a particular tax document "to notify the I.R.S. of tax losses not charged to book value, it is of little moment that its disingenuous choices were counseled or encouraged by consultants".

But his willingness to give up land where Israel is narrowest, and around Jerusalem, for the sake of reducing the Arab population contravenes a basic tenet of many on the right: that Israel must not get any smaller because the land belongs to it and because strategically that would be risky.

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The European Court Of Justice has ruled that Google must respect the "right to be forgotten" and, at the request of private individuals, remove "irrelevant" and outdated information that contravenes an EU privacy directive concerning the way personal data is processed.

Following the recent European Court Of Justice ruling in which Google must respect an individual's "right to be forgotten" and remove "irrelevant" and "outdated" information that contravenes an EU privacy directive, a new service has launched to help users file a request with the search giant.

The Federal Department for Territorial Development said the building project contravened a 1980 federal law safeguarding agricultural land.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has operated in Australia for over two decades, legally, without contravening a single law.

The new policy, which lawyers in the Justice Department justified by citing President Bush's executive authority as Commander-in-Chief, contravened a century of constitutional case law.

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