Sentence examples for technical contravention from inspiring English sources
Yet the acquiescence was only partial: the official response to Britain admitted a technical contravention of international law but maintained that Wilkes had essentially been in the right, implying that releasing the prisoners was a goodwill gesture that the Union would have refused had the issue been more significant.
"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.
It considered the breach to be a "serious contravention of Principle 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998" — which states that appropriate technical and organisational measures must be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data.
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".
(In contravention of stadium rules, Alex Salmond, the secessionist First Minister of Scotland, unfurled a Scottish flag).
Aid for the dam was linked to unrelated defence orders, in contravention to British policy.
