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But both Strick van Linschoten and Michael Innes of Thesigers, the consultancy representing the Taliban Sources project, insisted there was no material within the archive that would contravene the act.

He said it was "entirely appropriate" for retired senior officers to use their previous experience to advise private companies, but added: "I have no intention, no inclination, and certainly no plans, to engage in lobbying activity that would contravene the rules prohibiting contact between private companies in the final stages of bidding for government contracts, and the officials in charge".

He insisted that the law, which applied only to the country's Shia minority, had been "misinterpreted" and did not restrict women's rights, but he added: "I ordered the justice minster to review the law and if there is anything that would contravene the country's constitution or sharia law or the freedom our constitution gives to Afghan women, without any doubt there will be changes in it".

As for blithely conceding Russia a sphere of influence to dominate neighboring counties at will, that would contravene the principles of the post-World War II order — substituting amoral great-power politics for nonaggression and self-determination.

Osborne has abolished the fuel duty escalator, cut fuel tax for vehicles, frozen air passenger duty rates and dismissed – on the untested assumption that it would contravene international law – a tax on planes that would have discouraged airlines from running them half-empty.

The cabinet said it would seek to do so in a way that would not contravene the High Court decision or international law, although legal experts said that would be tricky, if not impossible.

But, were you to swing a cat in it (something that would obviously contravene the BBC's no doubt extensive health and safety rules), things would rapidly become very messy.

Mr. Hayes also said that it would "contravene long-standing" board rules for a two-person majority to adopt such a sweeping decision.

In the mid-16th century, for example, the merchants of Antwerp successfully resisted the attempt by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V to introduce the Inquisition in their city, maintaining that it would contravene their traditional privileges and ruin their prosperity (and hence diminish the emperor's tax income).

Attempts have been made to start direct air links with Britain, but in 2009 a court ruled that this would contravene international law which gives the island's internationally recognised government (which controls the Greek-speaking part of the island) sovereignty over its airspace.A German thinker, Max Weber, defined statehood as "the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence".

Reagan was supported by the U.K. but opposed by other European allies, who argued that it would contravene international law.