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Example sentences for "contravention"

Lexicographically close words:
contrasts; contravene; contravened; contravenes; contravening; contraventions; contre; contree; contrees; contretemps
  1. Any contravention of the edict shall entail a mulct of one hundred marks, one half payable to the fisc and one half to the party injured.

  2. The Beguines had gradually, almost unconsciously, grown up in practical contravention of this canon.

  3. This arrangement was in contravention of the late king's testament, which had conferred the regency on the duke of Gloucester, in exclusion of his elder brother.

  4. In the same parliament the commons pray that no grant or protection be made to any one in contravention of the statute of provisors, saving the king's prerogative.

  5. That from this date all magistrates at the Metropolitan Police | | Courts will be superseded by military officers empowered to deal and | | adjudicate upon all offences in contravention to law.

  6. Now he that from rage kills himself, voluntarily, does this in contravention of Right Reason, which the law does not permit.

  7. I object to the gentleman's proposition, because it is in contravention of one of the great fundamental principles of the Christian religion.

  8. This doctrine of separate estate will stifle all the finer feelings, blast the brightest, fairest, happiest hopes of the human family, and go in direct contravention of that law which bears the everlasting impress of the Almighty Hand.

  9. Directors of industry, acting in contravention of Sec.

  10. The police authorities may enforce the dismissal of workers employed in contravention of the foregoing prohibitions.

  11. Any person who acts in contravention of Sec.

  12. Claims for goods supplied on credit in contravention of Sec.

  13. Agreements made in contravention of this provision shall be void.

  14. Any person who gives employment to workers on Sundays and festivals, in contravention of Sec.

  15. Any person who acts in contravention of the provisions of Sec.

  16. Any person who acts in contravention of the final orders issued on the grounds of Sec.

  17. The paper was not even an Act, but an Order, and it seemed to me that its phrases about "contravention of these Regulations" might in practice mean almost anything.

  18. But was the contravention of the Regulations the real point of our Case after all?

  19. It may or it may not imply a contravention of the laws of nature.

  20. Any match game played by any club in contravention to the rules adopted by the National Association shall be considered null and void, and shall not be counted in the list of match games won and lost.

  21. Any match game played by any club in contravention to the rules adopted by the National Association, shall be considered null and void, and shall not be counted in the list of match games won and lost.

  22. To this reminiscence of the Matriarchate are we indebted for the story of Moses and his preservation by an Egyptian princess in direct contravention of the Pharaoh's orders, as told by the Bible and Josephus.

  23. Yet there were numerous instances of the contravention of the order in Italy, in Gaul, and in Spain itself, and conformity could not be secured even by the most emphatic re-issue of the injunction by successive Synods.

  24. In Prussia the decision, judgment, and sentence in all cases of contravention and collision were assigned to the court of law; in Austria they were assigned to the court of administration, in the last instance to the minister.

  25. Acts in contravention of justice, St. Augustine and St. Thomas after him tell us, are violences rather than laws, and are nullities.

  26. It can hardly be denied that the governor, in his treatment of this woman, was acting in flagrant contravention of all rules.

  27. This placard was constituted a breach of privilege, comment upon the proceedings of the House being deemed a contravention of the Bill of Rights.

  28. The governor was also personally responsible for gross contravention of this rule of separation, and was in the habit of drawing frequently upon the female prison for prisoners to act as domestic servants in his own private dwelling.

  29. Any clergyman solemnizing a marriage in contravention of these restrictions is liable to seven years' transportation.

  30. This was in contravention to the solemn assurance given by the eastern Indians, of peace with New England.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contravention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjuration; abrogation; annulment; breach; challenge; contention; contradiction; contraposition; counteraction; crossing; denial; disavowal; disclaimer; disproof; infraction; infringement; lawbreaking; negation; nullification; offense; opposing; rebuttal; recantation; refusal; refutation; rejection; renunciation; repudiation; resistance; retraction; revocation; transgression; trespass; trespassing; undercurrent; violation