Examples of 'contravened' in a sentence
Meaning of "contravened"
To contravene means to violate or fail to comply with a rule, law, or regulation
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- simple past tense and past participle of contravene
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Ramanauskas contravened his right to a fair trial.
Appeals are allowed where this requirement is contravened.
They contravened the fundamental laws of physics.
These standards should not be contravened.
This contravened orders from higher headquarters.
Criminal sanctions only apply if such orders are contravened.
Danger of being contravened by the laws of the parts.
Contravened the law of their country.
Both actions contravened state regulations.
The law must not have been contravened.
The transaction contravened the law and failed.
Thus the principle of effectiveness was contravened.
He has contravened or violated any one of our abovementioned.
Their proposed appointments contravened merit.
Employers who contravened that ban were liable to pay a fine.
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It was not shown that the merit principle was contravened.
He argues that this contravened the merit principle.
These decisions are binding on employers and may not be contravened.
The defendant contravened that duty.
No judgment concluded that the principle of subsidiarity had been contravened.
This directly contravened testimony before the grand jury.
Such a state of affairs blatantly contravened the rule of law.
These omissions contravened the ethical code of a defence counsel.
I believe that you have deliberately contravened a direct order.
Those who contravened it were deemed sinners and even disbelievers.
That you have contravened.
Such arrangements contravened all existing recommendations on the independence of judges.
I therefore find that the law was contravened in this regard.
Contravened professional ethics.
The credit union has contravened an order of a stabilization authority.
Nor is it in a position to state which directive might be being contravened.
He felt that this method contravened the merit principle.
There is no evidence that the merit principle has been contravened.
The transaction apparently contravened the collective bargaining agreement.
Or its rules happen to be contravened.
The whole situation contravened the conventions on the protection of refugees.
Shoot immediately if contravened.
It also contravened international human rights standards and should be abolished.
I must therefore determine if this contravened the merit principle.
There is no bias and the merit principle has not been contravened.
One of my staff contravened the rules and her professional secrecy.
But in any event the directive may be contravened there too.
Venues who contravened the rules would risk losing their licence.
Such a system would definitely have contravened the technical regulations.
He argued that nevertheless the merit principle had not been contravened.
Human needs on earth were contravened in the name of religion and salvation.
A female parttime employee claimed that the provision contravened art.
Anyone who contravened his idiosyncratic ideas of justice was immediately served a writ.
The appellant claimed that this contravened the merit principle.
Suspension of agreements with those countries would follow if the clause was contravened.
