Sentence examples for direct contravention of from inspiring English sources

However, the very fact that the Assad government is in a position to allow or deny humanitarian aid is because it is using besiegement as a weapon of war - in direct contravention of UN Security Council directives and the Geneva Conventions.

"His continued detention is still in direct contravention of international standards for child asylum seekers".

For China, the choice is whether to modify its policies, or continue them in direct contravention of international law.

Does Cameron agree that the Crimean referendum was illegal, illegitimate and in direct contravention of the Ukrainian constitution.

It also provides access, in direct contravention of a UN legal counsel statement from 2002, to Western Sahara's waters.

But Parks Australia says that leaving the climb open is not a direct contravention of the act.

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.

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

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

This is in direct contravention to federal law, specifically, the Posse Comitatus Act, the 230-year-old law that bars the use of military personnel for law enforcement purposes within the U.S.

Additionally, she pointed out that Eritrea's imprisonment of innocent people was in direct contravention with a number of international treaties it had signed up to.