Sentence examples for this contravened from inspiring English sources

This contravened international law, and was a travesty of democracy.

This contravened good practice for patrols in that area.

This contravened their orders on never giving themselves up, so again had to be ignored.

But things started to go wrong when the company sought a base at the Old Vic in 1977 and there was confusion over whether this contravened the terms of their touring subsidy.

He said that this contravened the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

Opponents said this contravened the constitution, which states a president can only be elected to two terms.

I believe this contravenes the Azerbaijani constitution and the European convention on human rights.

Paul Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers believes this contravenes not only the European Convention on Human Rights, but also Britain's Equality Act.

"This contravenes the whole notion of us being able to assemble objects from different cultures," the curator said.

This contravenes basic economic theory: what is exported must be imported.Up until around 2004, the net global trade balance was negative.

Ordinarily, Geoghegan would have expected the chairman's role to be his because the bank traditionally hands the job to its chief executive, although this contravenes corporate governance guidelines.