Sentence examples for contravening idea from inspiring English sources

One of the widespread oppositions to evolutionary theory arises from its contravening idea of divine creation.

The former minister for environment in Brazil tells us she "had to fight with people who thought the forest was a symbol of backwardness, or that it contravened the idea of progress".

One indel supports a grouping of H. cydno with a single associated H. melpomene sequence that lacks the indel (but which is attached to the base of the clade, and so does not contravene the idea that the indel may be a character found only in H. cydno).

That discriminates against people with certain diseases, they say, and contravenes the whole idea of insurance, which is to help people pay for costly medical problems.

But it's far easier to deal with bureaucratic shortcomings than to face up to the existence of mothers who seem to contravene every single idea of instinctive nurturing.

But we're not contravening any federal statute.

The president could not be impeached for contravening the constitution.

But there is no possible mechanism for doing that without contravening the Spanish constitution.

"We also find the documentary to be minimising and denying genocide, contravening domestic and international laws.

It would also be a terrible precedent, probably contravening European treaties.

"It is not contravening any law unlike say dressing as a police officer," he added.