Sentence examples for their contravention from inspiring English sources

That exporters in a rich country should be so dependent on government subsidies is troubling.The distorting effects of FSCs are as worrying as their contravention of the rules of international trade.

Heading for a fail: Scottish government We saw the commencement of a legal challenge against the Scottish government this week, for what critics believe is their contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In others, the gas giants are close to their stars, in contravention of what had been the accepted model of how solar systems are formed.

Ella said several of Fiji's top players had been coerced to remain with their clubs, in contravention of I.R.B. regulations.

In some hospitals, more than half of those who have the operation have it before the 39th week of their pregnancy, in contravention of official NHS guidelines.

Scientists warned that the EU catch limits for 2017 were above their recommendations, in contravention of the reforms to the common fisheries policy that are supposed to ensure levels of catch are sustainable by 2020.

One redaction was the name of the senior civil servant who advised officials to exercise discretion in determining the size of the bond First and Virgin should pay to guarantee their bids, in contravention of procurement law.

And while Mr Obama said then that he had no time for such "silliness", there was room enough at the annual reporters' shindig in Washington to make a joke of the birthers and their insistence, in contravention of all fact and sense, that the president was born in Africa or Indonesia.

First, the Obama administration unwisely attempted to force religious institutions to offer birth control coverage to their employees in contravention of church teachings.

Most famously, great writers have split infinitives and ended sentences with prepositions for centuries, yet somehow bans on both usages became "rules" that have been taught to millions of speakers in English, in contravention of their own good sense for their native language.

"This offence specifically criminalises the activity of commonwealth officials who have released commonwealth information in contravention of their obligations, not journalists".