Sentence examples for this contravention of from inspiring English sources

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Many Americans, southerners especially, refused to pay pre-war debts to Britain; state laws often supported this contravention of the federal treaty.

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Q: Isn't this a contravention of the civil service code?

"I don't think that the Council will say this is in contravention of the resolution of the Security Council," Mr. Annan said.

Mrs Clinton said this was in contravention of the ceasefire that ended the five-day war, and called on Russia to abide by its commitments, "including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions".

This was in contravention of a ruling by the Parades Commission that said only hymns should be played.

This is in contravention of a ruling by the Parades Commission, the body set up to rule on contentious parades in Northern Ireland.

"This is in contravention of agreements and normal practice and I think we need answers from the Russian and UK governments.

I offer this improbable romance, in contravention of all the crap that our culture tries to instil in us about who deserves love.

This was in clear contravention of the rules, which stated that no more than four tickets could be sold to any individual.

If true, this would be a contravention of UN resolutions banning individuals or organisations from financing illegal armed groups in the wartorn eastern DRC.

Most definitions use variations of something called Option 1, which states that any person in a position of "exercising control or capable of directing, planning, preparing, ordering, initiating, or carrying out an armed attack" against another state, when this attack is in contravention of the U.N. Charter, will be subject to investigation, trial, conviction and punishment by the ICC.

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