Sentence examples for contraventions to from inspiring English sources

"We considered these contraventions to be so serious we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation.

Last month, Denham explained the decision to impose the maximum penalty on Facebook by saying: "We considered these contraventions to be so serious we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation.

This is in clear contravention to what the Syrian government has already agreed".

Aid for the dam was linked to unrelated defence orders, in contravention to British policy.

She added that the decision was "in direct contravention to longstanding Arkansas law".

"People have been detained for over three years in contravention to the laws of Papua New Guinea in abusive conditions.

The decision is "in direct contravention" to the government's northern powerhouse rhetoric, he said, and had been made without the consultation of local MPs.

After shouting at Brooke for some coffee — "in contravention to every one of my instructions and orders, we'll let you back in on a provisional basis" — McCain then earnestly thanked the reporters for joining him.

This article was amended on 8 August 2011 to remove a reference identifying "some of the island's wealthier families" as bearing the surnames of those from the Chueta community in contravention to the Guardian's editorial code on reflecting anti-semitic tropes.

Leonard Weiss, a mathematician and an expert on nuclear proliferation, was working as a Senate advisor at the time and after being briefed on the incident by US intelligence agencies and the country's nuclear weapons laboratories, he became convinced a nuclear test, in contravention to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, had taken place.

"This is a blatant land grab and is in direct contravention to the Minsk [ceasefire] agreements which they signed up to," he added.