Sentence examples for deems contrary to from inspiring English sources

The mutual fund company, which has a portfolio of about $700 million, avoids investing in companies that it deems contrary to Scripture.

The authorities are keen to reassure foreign mining interests, but are wary of legal provisions they deem contrary to the interests of Niger.

In 1993 the law was changed to enable parents to freely choose their baby's name – unless it is deemed contrary to the child's interests.

Although federal law requires revoking loan guarantees to penalize certain construction deemed contrary to American policy, the United States does not define the activities as illegal.

Legislation proposed last week by the Obama administration, for example, would empower the S.E.C. to ban compensation plans for brokers and investment advisers it deemed contrary to investors' interests.

Ivory Coast's press council has suspended all six newspapers allied with former President Laurent Gbagbo for up to two weeks for publishing content deemed "contrary to national reconciliation".

In 2008 it offered a peek at its secret archive of erotic art known as L'Enfer, or hell, that it had deemed "contrary to good morals".

"But acquired rights are being threatened by repeated attacks by Salafist groups on those they consider infidels or on behavior they deem contrary to Islamic morality".

The government's efforts have produced results at home, where films that explore anything deemed contrary to the leadership's narrative have been banned.

It also banned public rallies and trade union strikes that are deemed contrary to national security, as well as "seditious" words, defined as those spoken or written to try to create discontent among the citizenry.

The act shall be deemed contrary to public morality, if it is so considered in the religion of the doer, or the custom of the country where the act occurs".