contravene

How To Use contravene In A Sentence

• A memo from March 1988 revealed the project was to be ditched because it "contravened" statements from ministers saying UFOs did not pose a threat to the UK. Undefined
• It seems to us to contravene all normal rules of equity that they should be able to behave in this fashion.
• On this evidence, it appears the excision of oral health from national health policy, contravenes the international health charter on all counts.
• Conditions in the prison were not good, he wrote, but in his opinion they didn't specifically contravene any UN conventions. THE EXECUTION
• We resolutely oppose such and practices that contravene facts and undermine China - US relations.
• What matters is how this declaration would contribute to the uplifting of morals by those in government and the general populace and whether it contravenes the rights and freedoms of non-Christians.
• Someone having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened.
• Lay people are barely aware that the state government exists and are far more intensely aware of the benefits they receive from federal government programs that contravene this proposed amendment. The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
• It seems to us to contravene all normal rules of equity that they should be able to behave in this fashion.
• The Board has banned the film on the grounds that it contravenes criminal libel laws.