Sentence examples for they contravene from inspiring English sources

Yet these choices are far from carefully considered — and, surprisingly often, they contravene reason.

While environmentalists and vegetarians welcome them, others argue they contravene the culinary tradition of the region.

The usual reasons are that proposed party platforms offer nothing new, or that they contravene a constitutional ban on parties based on religion.

Another idea, favored by Open Europe, the British research organization, is to institute a system of "red cards," giving national parliaments the ability to strike down commission proposals on the grounds that they contravene subsidiarity or proportionality.

To avoid any suggestion that they contravene international conventions, the funding has come from the civil budget as the "calmatives" are claimed to be intended for crowd and riot control.

The Islamist insurgent group Shabab is forcibly removing gold and silver teeth from residents in southern Somalia because it says they contravene strict religious law, residents from a coastal town, Marka, said Monday.

Films were exhibited in private clubs in Saudi Arabia until all public screenings were banned in the early 1980s on the ground that they contravened Islamic law.

But the FIA said they contravened rules outlawing moveable aerodynamic devices.

According to Bullock, Hitler did not believe in God, was anticlerical, and held Christian ethics in contempt because they contravened his preferred view of "survival of the fittest".

In an email to THUMP, a spokesperson for the LLDC said the entity denied Shapes' application for planning permission this year because they contravened last year's permit by keeping the venue open later than the hours it stipulated.

Thereby, they contravened the federal BPCI Act which had required a separate, additional designation of interchangeability.