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The act of contravening a rule, regulation, or law, or of not fulfilling an obligation, promise, or agreement.
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In England a deceased may dispose of his entire estate by will to the detriment of his spouse and children, subject however to contravention by a court upon petition of the spouse or children if they are not adequately provided for.
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Ignoring questions around the morality of keeping these properties out of the long-term rental market during a housing crisis, the majority of these lets are also likely to be in contravention to London housing law.
Ignoring questions around the morality of keeping these properties out of the long-term rental market during the sort of housing crisis that London is going through, the majority of these lets are also likely to be in contravention to local housing law.
In an open letter to the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation on Thursday, they write that investments in coal, gas and oil companies amount to a contravention of the solemn Hippocratic oath that doctors take before they start service.
Presumably, the SFA will want to examine that scenario and look into whether Ashley having two representatives on the Rangers board amounts to a contravention of their agreement that he would not influence its decisions.
That deal put an end to years of bitter squabbling over subsidies to Airbus, which was starting to win sales from Boeing.The Europeans suspect the Americans of cheating on the deal by funnelling indirect subsidies to Boeing, in contravention of the agreement to limit subsidies to 30% of a project's cost.
Aid for the dam was linked to unrelated defence orders, in contravention to British policy.
Gaspard said in a written memo to the investigating police officer, quoted by CMC: "There is nothing in it for me to suggest or to see any contravention of the laws of Trinidad and Tobago, that could mean that you need to go further with the investigation because what they supplied to me was insufficient.
In other words the activation and sensitivity to rapamycin appear to be two independent events, in complete contravention to prevalent hypotheses.
Allowing him to speak on campus could easily occasion grave offence to Muslim students, and could thereby be argued by the extremists in the home office to be a contravention of the directive to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
Instead of the current feeble, un-resourced process, which delivers neither transparency nor accountability, the article proposes the creation of a mechanism that will employ specific, effective measures to address contraventions of COI disclosure requirements.
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