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How to use contravention in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contravention? Here are some examples.

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He said a further application would require a material contravention to give zoning authority and added he was surprised by the refusal.
What are the facts that your client would need to prove against the advertising agency to be knowingly involved in a contravention?
The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress.
I would also like to commend the Peak for publishing it amid a sea of prohibitory contravention.
The subsection then goes on to make the contravention of its provisions a summary offence.
Navy renegades upstaged it with a buccaneering March landing on South Georgia, in direct contravention of orders.
I am trying to think of an example of a contravention of this restraining order that would not turn upon presence in the premises.
These powers must be exercised on consideration of the likelihood of damage or distress caused by the contravention of the Act.
He said that councillors were being asked to vote without full information when a material contravention came before them.
Identifying the alleged contravention of the Act is no idle pleading point.
At the time of the offence, or the contravention, you will never know whether there has been actual recoupment.
But in both cases, your Honour, one is looking at the misconduct of the contravention.
You are concerned to identify the contravention and what follows from the contravention.
If that is right, the contravention lies not in the nature of the implication but in the purpose of the regulation.
Not every instance of outsourcing will involve a contravention of this law.
Why would this not be a contravention of that law on the assumption I have made?
It permits the manager to grant permissions in material contravention of the development plan.
But the condition is that there is a reasonable belief that there has been a contravention of the law.
The contravention is complete when the conduct occurs for the proscribed purpose whether or not it achieves its objective.
All the while a paraglider was buzzing the complex, in direct contravention of the air exclusion zone at Lucas Heights.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Misdemeanour, roughly but not exactly, corresponds to the French dlit, and summary offence to contravention.
But what mattered the contravention of treaties in comparison with the scenes which followed?
But was the contravention of the Regulations the real point of our Case after all?
To avoid doing so intentionally, is a contravention of one of the Creator's laws.
Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.
The fine for contravention in this respect was paid in wax, not in money.
The words contravention, crime, and delict were of no value.
These unions were all in contravention of the Levitical law.
Several laws in contravention of the Constitution were passed, and he kept himself aside.
A miracle in the sense of a contravention of natural laws an absurdity.
At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates.
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