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Example sentences for "contravening"

Lexicographically close words:
contrasting; contrasts; contravene; contravened; contravenes; contravention; contraventions; contre; contree; contrees
  1. But I consider it as contravening the order of nature, and therefore improper.

  2. Probably a large proportion of the diseases to which human life is subject, are the natural consequence of living contrary to nature; or contravening the great laws which govern our present mode of existence.

  3. The other clauses giving powers necessary to preserve harmony among the States to negative all State laws contravening in the opinion of the Nat.

  4. The Legislature shall by permanent laws provide such further regulations as may be necessary for the more orderly election of the President; not contravening the provisions herein contained.

  5. M^r Sherman thought it unnecessary; as the Courts of the States would not consider as valid any law contravening the Authority of the Union, and which the legislature would wish to be negatived.

  6. States contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature the articles of Union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union.

  7. To negative all laws passed by the several States contravening in the opinion of the Nat: Legislature the articles of Union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of y^e Union.

  8. Much discussion ensued; the decree was held as contravening the bull of Nicholas V in 1449, and there was prospect of trouble, leading Ferdinand and Isabella to apply to Innocent VIII for a remedy.

  9. We must notice a second view, contravening the principle of the development of moral relations into a legal form.

  10. Here was I laying plans for the contravening of this first great rule, and to do so I took advantage of the second great rule of the English people, which is, that property is sacred.

  11. I saw him under the stress of deep emotion, and latterly began to realise the tremendous chances he was taking in contravening the will of his imperious master.

  12. That night Frau Kupfer and her daughter were arrested on a charge of contravening the food regulations, and with their arrest the bubble burst.

  13. Besides, as Frau Kupfer said, they must not forget that they were all partners in a scheme that was daily contravening the Government regulations as to maximum prices.

  14. Anaxagoras was arrested on a charge of contravening the established dogmas of religion (some say the charge was one of Medism), and it required all the eloquence of Pericles to secure his acquittal.

  15. Any person contravening was liable to a penalty of L.

  16. The armed neutrality was confined to the then existing war; Russia herself, the creator of the armed neutrality, entered into a compact with England, in 1793, expressly contravening its principles.

  17. But arrested vessels must always be brought into a harbour of their flag State, and all contraventions are to be tried by Courts of the flag State of the contravening vessel (articles 2, 7, 8).


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contravening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.