Sentence examples for of contravention from inspiring English sources

Each one of these myths contains a crucial act of contravention," her director tells her.

"Around the world, what is happening with white-collar crime is people are moving to civil remedies because very few courts and prosecutors have the technical skills to actually get behind this sort of contravention," she said.

"During the early period of enforcement the number of contraventions gradually increased as more and more cameras were added to the enforcement network," she said.

Although it is sometimes misleadingly referred to as "disputed" or "controversial," settlement construction in E1 is no more and no less of a contravention of international law than settlement construction elsewhere in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.

The Met's lawsuit, in which Mrs. Cowles is also a plaintiff, says Mr. Wylde has been offered his money back by the gallery, but has nonetheless "retained possession of Painting in contravention of the Plaintiffs' right of ownership".

"In addition to that, there could be some potential criminal liability on the basis of possible contraventions of Canadian firearms regulations if they were to use actual firearms instead of airsoft which are, of course, not defined as firearms".

But any tariff subsidies are, on the face of it, in contravention of World Trade Organisation rules.

Li is captured on camera admitting to smuggling whale sharks out of China, in contravention of a CITES ban.

The mayor of San Francisco, in contravention of all existing state and federal law, started handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples as if they were political placards.

In France, Guibert says he engaged in petty warfare against other nobles and "criminal looting" of the countryside, in contravention of the Peace and Truce of God.

Despite global awareness of the hazardous nature of lead, and in contravention of their own voluntary lead restriction agreement, paint manufacturers in South Africa appear to have continued to use lead in certain paints.