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How to use contravene in a sentence

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Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
Some of the other matters about exaggeration, invention of untrue stories and so forth, may arguably contravene the section.
If, on the other hand, members of organisations do engage in acts which contravene the criminal law then the law is able to deal with them.
Cllr Pat McCarthy said he wanted clarification on whether or not the car park would contravene the development plan.
This is because to refuse treatment would contravene the principle that people should be able to move freely to work in another EC country.
What chance, then, of the judges now forbidding parliament to contravene our home-grown constitutional principle of the rule of law?
These are concrete factual matters and they wish to ensure that their intended activity does not contravene valid law.
Disclosure would contravene a prohibition imposed by or under any enactment.
The council decided an application to convert an old inn into houses would contravene the human rights of villagers who drank there.
The endeavour is to bring those who contravene international law to justice, whether for genocide, possessing illegal weapons or whatever.
When it comes to a situation where parents' individual interests contravene public interests, there is a need to weigh up all the interests involved.
Critics claim that such tests contravene the spirit, if not the letter, of the test-ban treaty.
How can the government allow its unelected minister to contravene this rule with impunity?
They sign international conventions, which they struggle to implement and then contravene.
Not to do so would contravene his will, viewed as a construction of his higher-order desires, even if the action turned out to be to his disadvantage.
The Council decided that the commercial was neutral and not in poor taste, and did not contravene the CAB's Code of Ethics.
Such measures contravene not only the Convention, but also a woman's right freely to choose her partner.
Whether the individual is carrying on activities that contravene or will contravene the Act or the regulation if he or she is licensed.
Many of the charges against him stem from laws that contravene international standards.
Such a criterion was completely neutral and could not contravene the national law of Member States.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Such a custom would contravene the principles of the druidic or bardic system, which prohibited them from using arms.
Nor does it contravene the general assertion here made, that we act by opposing one natural force to another.
But do not the turnpikes, or fall-stops, with which these rivers are thickset, contravene also the rights of nature?
Though they will freely risk their lives to steal, they will not contravene the wild rule of the desert.
But among these invalided articles were a few whose condition accidentally revealed attempts to contravene the postal laws.
The only prescription is that it shall not contravene the provisions of the proclamation.
Here they were of course, but how was it possible to contravene the orders of Jan?
All who contravene these orders will be tried by court-martial.
Arsinoe did not contravene the arrangements of the two women.
Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
Going to bed early does not contravene or anticipate the difficulty.
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