contravene
IPA: kˈɑntrʌvin
verb
- (transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deny the truth of something.
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Examples of "contravene" in Sentences
- Would this contravene the Gni license
- It seems to contravene the spirit of it.
- This clearly contravenes the aim of wikipedia.
- It contravenes policy and doesn't belong in the article.
- The subpage itself doesn't contravene the guideline cited above.
- They contravene several explicit points of the Potsdam declaration.
- It is not inevitable that the decision contravenes the constitution.
- Some organizations and groups that contravene the iron law of oligarchy.
- The bot's activities contravene the plain reading of the ArbCom's decision.
- Moreover, the book does not contravene the Wikipedia guidelines on reliability.
- Tanigawa said the conditions contravene basic rights guaranteed by the constitution.
- But what if the question were: should a state be forced to honor marriages performed in other states that contravene local law?
- With the Copyright Extension Act, Congress has basically guaranteed infinite copyrights while managing to not quite contravene the Constitution, merely its clear intention.
- These articles contravene the right to freedom of religion and belief and the rule of law under Belgian legislation and the international treaties signed and ratified by Belgium.
- 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.
- Where the narrative represents events that contravene these we have four flavours of quirk respectively (expanding on Suvin's coinage/exaptation of "novum" and following his naming strategy): sutura; chimera; erratum; novum.
- At least 11 of the government databases used in the U.K. are seriously flawed and need revamping or just plain scrapping, and according to Ross Anderson, security expert, they most certainly are illegal as they 'contravene' the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
- If the arbitration tribunal issues a final ruling that BP did contravene its shareholder pact with AAR, that could in turn lead to a further escalation in hostilities between the two camps, which have had a fractious relationship since the joint venture was formed in 2003.