Sentence examples for might contravene from inspiring English sources

He said he was calling for long-range policy changes, not an immediate tax hike that might contravene Labour's manifesto pledges.

The Treasury solicitors, it is proposed, will be invited to recommend the removal of passages that they believe might contravene the rights of anyone named in the report.

Schumer said Thursday that he and Graham would work with other senators to write a bill for submission next year that would press the Chinese but not do anything that might contravene rules of the World Trade Organization.

The move came as a surprise to Hermitage, who say they were told by Soca in 2009 that the Russian requests for information might contravene clauses which forbid the Interpol system from being used for political purposes.

An agreement in principle, struck last week, that euro zone nations would offer bilateral loans if Greece needed them fell apart when Germany appeared to disown the deal, saying that a direct bailout might contravene European Union and German law.

We mustn't and shouldn't turn universities into giant "safe spaces", self-censoring themselves over what can be discussed because it might contravene some government definition of what might trigger terrorism – and on top to censor speakers who might give offence to some interest group.

Providing EDF with substantial, long-term price guarantees would not only present a political challenge for the British government, it might also contravene European Union rules on state support for industry.

One ICMI board member, Amien Rais, deeply offended Suharto when he suggested that his family's scramble for shares in a goldfield might have contravened the constitution.

North Korea has threatened to terminate the armistice in the past, but the greater worry now is that it might take actions to contravene it.

So keen is the modern sense of the need for respectful silence, so swift is the modern spectator to condemn those who contravene established theatre etiquette, that one might quickly forget that the concept of the quiet or invisible audience is both a recent and a historically atypical one.

Analysing sushi doesn't contravene any laws, but analysing human genes might.