Sentence examples for seeming contravention from inspiring English sources

Iraqi security forces were not present or informed of the mission, a seeming contravention of the emphasis from commanders that operations be conducted jointly, and at the request of the Iraqis.

In seeming contravention of common sense, the particle appears to pass through both slits at once and then interferes with itself, splatting into a pattern that looks like overlapping waves on the far wall.

You didn't have to be an international lawyer to smell the dodginess in Koza's email - although if you had been, you might well have decided that it seemed in clear contravention of the Vienna Conventions, which regulate global diplomacy.

"The fact that there are 30 or 50 people sitting around a table deciding the laws of the world's nations, when there are major areas of disagreement, seems like a wholesale contravention of the democratic process".

Libor was so loosely defined that there doesn't seem to be one, direct, clear contravention.

Viewing his security needs as desperate, the Americans seem to have turned a blind eye to purchases of small arms by Iraq's government from Iran, in contravention of international sanctions.For his part, Mr Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding Sunni terrorists in Iraq in order to destabilise the country.

Though the unsigned opinion was unanimous, it seemed to reflect divisions on the court about whether the Florida court had overreached its authority and had curtailed the powers of the State Legislature in contravention of the federal Constitution.

Because the drugs most commonly used at these events—usually cocaine and MDMA, but also GHB, K, and others are illegal, it can seem like the only legal response organizers can make is to preach zero tolerance, providing amnesty boxes, conducting exhaustive searches, and charging those found in contravention of the law.

Very annoying, and a contravention of trading standards.

"It was in contravention of every known city regulation".

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