Sentence examples for will contravene from inspiring English sources

French publishers also claim the agreement will contravene laws in their homeland.

The reduction in legal aid will contravene disabled people's rights because there will be no way they can challenge anything.

His appointment raises questions about whether his Landbridge role will contravene the statement of ministerial standards, which states ministers should not lobby or advocate with the government for 18 months after their political retirement.

The most controversial part of the bill, which allows CSIS to 'disrupt' threats to the security of Canada, doesn't require a judge's approval, unless "those measures will contravene a right or freedom guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom".

Thus, an antiquity that was originally obtained through illegal means must, at some point in its trading history, enter the legitimate market so that its purchase will not contravene the law and its ownership will not attract public censure.

Will it contravene social norms?

For in doing what the self desires, other causes besides the activity of the self are always also involved; the effect is not in the self's control, and thus will inevitably contravene its desires, its own causal contributions to the effect.

When a union's members stage a wildcat, they will have contravened the stipulated use of negotiation, conciliation, mediation, and possibly arbitration to resolve grievances.

The sheiks, for example, will not give an opinion on whether non-Muslims are headed to heaven or hell, will not comment on government policy and will not directly contravene an opinion voiced by another religious sheik.

Such acts are also a sin against God, the preachers will say: they contravene the Prophet's teaching on clemency.The idea of using Muslim sermons to stamp out one of most grisly practices of traditional society, of which dozens of cases still occur every year, belongs to Ali Bardakoglu, the new head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate.

As for blithely conceding Russia a sphere of influence to dominate neighboring counties at will, that would contravene the principles of the post-World War II order — substituting amoral great-power politics for nonaggression and self-determination.