Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of contravening or the state of being contravened; a violation, contradiction, or inconsistency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of opposing, antagonizing, or obstructing; counteraction.
- noun The act of transgressing or violating; violation: as, the proceedings of the allies were in contravention of the treaty.
- noun Specifically Violation of a legal condition or obligation by which the contravener is bound: especially applied, in Scots law, to an act done by an heir of entail in opposition to the provisions of the deed, or to acts of molestation or outrage committed by a person in violation of law-burrows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
contravening arule ,regulation , orlaw , or of notfulfilling anobligation ,promise , oragreement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coming into conflict with
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Examples
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The US, in contravention to the NPT, makes an inside deal with India to give them access to all kinds of nuclear technology, etc.
U.S. prepared to push for crippling sanctions, Iran warned 2009
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Subsidised health care is not a constitutional right, and there's obviously no support for making it, in contravention of the Constitution, an entitlement.
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Which is to say that any executor of an estate acting in contravention of the express wishes of the original creator is in breach of an implicit contract entered into in their acceptance of the copyright as part of their inheritance.
Creative Control - Part 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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Then on Friday came the coup de grace: the Formula One Teams 'Association pointed out that the FIA's action was in contravention of its own regulations:
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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That way lies scientistic dismissals of heavier-than-air flight because this would clearly be in contravention of the law of gravity.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Which is to say that any executor of an estate acting in contravention of the express wishes of the original creator is in breach of an implicit contract entered into in their acceptance of the copyright as part of their inheritance.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Reminds one of the Human Genome Project and other sequencing projects — genuine science resulted, but it was virtually all in contravention to the early promises made in order to garner large scale govt. funding.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Children Who Form No Racial Stereotypes Found” 2010
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They are treated in contravention of all medical laws.
Work Camp 10049 GW 2010
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Article II does not grant the Executive unlimited authority to defend the nation in contravention of duly passed Congressional legislation forbidding specific behaviours
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So why would the BBC ignore a story about an African government's armed forces bombing a town and killing civilians in contravention of a peace deal and UN Security Council resolutions?
Another story that the BBC won't be covering, preferring instead to cover Israel's wickedness Not a sheep 2009
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