Sentence examples for were contravened from inspiring English sources

However, Mr Keville, acknowledging that they have the same policy, said: "I don't believe any of our policies were contravened.

Mr. Maazel is often accused of "micro-managing" his interpretations, as if the wishes of the composers were contravened and the natural ability of the players suppressed by willful control from the podium.

According to the group's editor-in-chief, Hugo Dixon, if the papers had taken care, they would have known that they were contravening the code.

In a sermon at East London Mosque, which was placed on YouTube and has already garnered 20,000 views in less than a week, Shaikh Shams railed against the men in the video for being "complete bigots" who were contravening Islamic law, not enforcing it.

Richard Rothwell, senior development manager at Groveworld, told THUMP that Shapes was served a lease termination notice back in January to be enforced this summer because they were contravening the terms of their rental agreement by not complying with the LLDC's regulation of operating hours.

According to the health authorities, in making those beneficiaries pay this extra contribution, health centres were contravening the fee exemption policy.

Interviewees who had difficulties controlling their diabetes were often particularly frustrated and upset: difficult control made interviewees feel anxious about the future; hypo-/hyper-glycaemic states could negatively impact mood; and it made interviewees feel that they were contravening norms governing how diabetes was 'supposed' to be managed.

In it, every accepted wisdom of the medium is contravened.

- Several traffic bylaws clearly being contravened here, as well as the illegal destruction of a wall.

But a law established for a public reason cannot be contravened by a private agreement".

Spinoza argues that nature has a fixed and eternal order that cannot be contravened.