(v. t.) To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
(v. t.) To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the pre-inquest review hearing in Aberdare, the Powys coroner, Louise Hunt, said a full inquest would look at whether article two of the European Convention on Human Rights, covering the right to life, had been contravened and whether there had been any failings by those in charge of the soldiers.
(2) Two refused to make any payment to secure business, one claiming such an arrangement would "contravene the rules and be unfair to leaseholders".
(3) The rightwing senator François Grosdidier has warned: “When you force a child to eat a dish that contravenes their religious or cultural beliefs, the child doesn’t eat it.
(4) But I believe it was wrong of him to say these words under any circumstances – and though Terry has been found not to have committed a criminal offence, the FA must now decide whether the former England captain should be charged for contravening its own rules.
(5) The Department of Health said it was "not a reliable poll as doctors were presented with very leading statements which contravene the code of conduct set out by the Market Research Society that respondents should not be led towards a particular view".
(6) The review will look at “whether the sanctions for contravening this offence are appropriate, fair and whether the regime represents value for money for licence fee payers and tax payers”.
(7) The UN’s human rights agency has made sweeping criticisms of Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers, saying a proposed law that would allow the government to remove people without considering whether they might face persecution elsewhere could contravene international treaties against torture.
(8) There can no longer be any doubt that covert US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen contravene international law.
(9) The benefit of transplantation without prior dialysis might be contravened by the failure to develop possible immunologic disabilities associated with chronic uremia and dialysis.
(10) Fifa’s ethics committee last month said that accepting such valuable gifts contravened its rules and has demanded that all the watches be returned by 24 October, otherwise it will launch disciplinary proceedings.
(11) The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it would issue a court challenge on Monday, claiming that the new entry rules target Muslims because of their faith and therefore contravene the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
(12) In his first public appearance since his resignation, Clark insisted he had been "meticulous" in following ministerial instructions in a pilot scheme scaling back border checks during the summer: "I introduced no additions to the home secretary's trial, neither did I extend or alter it in any way whatsoever … I have not wilfully or knowingly sanctioned an alteration to border checks that contravened existing Home Office policy."
(13) Lord Myners, the City minister, said the core of the problem was "irresponsible lending" and stressed: "The FSA has some very strong sanctions and enforcement resources available if banks contravene the regulations."
(14) Many Labour MPs were said to be "appalled" by the slogan, and David Cameron, the Conservative leader, claimed that it contravened European rules on the free movement of labour.
(15) An appeal considered by the Information Commissioner's Office in 2011 was also rejected because the commissioner did not "consider it fair" to disclose the name of the donor because it would contravene the Data Protection Act.
(16) Kagan swiftly rebutted the argument, pointing out that “there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and nonJews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination.” Even if the court rules that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, this will not mean that religious leaders will be compelled to perform marriages that contravene their religious traditions.
(17) Moreover, as the steel would not be sold immediately, it should avoid contravening EU trade rules.
(18) She would probably be given a warning, and if she ignored that she would be charged and given a restraining order which, if she contravened, could see her sent to prison.
(19) ITV refuted STV's claims, arguing that the Scottish broadcaster was trying to "retrospectively to opt out of an increasing number of peak time programmes which contravenes existing agreements" and also "wrongly attempting to claim a rebate against programmes which have been 'written off'".
(20) But Gilles Devers, a lawyer acting for Ahmas and several other women in niqab, argued punishments were not being handed out because the niqab law contravenes European human rights legislation on personal liberties and freedom of religion.
Dichotomous
Definition:
(a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
(2) Low income was found to be an independent predictor of birth weight when birth weight was treated both as a dichotomous and as a continuous variable.
(3) The issue has in some respects been inappropriately dichotomized as a conflict between public health agendas and the traditional priorities of drug treatment.
(4) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
(5) In numerous points of these plexuses, single adrenergic fibers or polyaxonal structures are observed to issue into nonvascular areas of the mesentery where after repeated dichotomic division they pass into the preterminal and terminal parts.
(6) In this report, we examined the psychiatric correlates of behavioral inhibition by evaluating the sample of offspring of parents with panic disorder and agoraphobia, previously dichotomized as inhibited and not inhibited, and an existing epidemiologically derived sample of children, followed by Kagan and colleagues and originally identified at 21 months of age as inhibited or uninhibited.
(7) When considering two dichotomous tests in combination for reaching a treatment decision, the choice between single and multiple testing depends, in part, on the pretest probability of disease.
(8) In order to react to diagnostic tests in an ordinal, dichotomous manner, the clinician has to choose a particular level of a test at which he initiates treatment without having the assurance that this level represents the one and only standard at which treatment has to be initiated.
(9) HIV-positive subjects were predominantly symptomatic and were dichotomized into AIDS and non-AIDS groups.
(10) Between ages 13 yrs and 15 yrs the human breast shows evidence of ductal elongation and branching, with lobules formed by lateral and dichotomous branching.
(11) A modified dichotomous plaque index (MPI), gingival bleeding index (GBI) and probing pocket depths (PPD) were assessed on days 0, 28 and 56.
(12) The prediction of 2 and 3 vessels disease was found to be significantly greater when patients were dichotomized into those with ST depression greater than or equal to 4 mm compared to less than 4 mm.
(13) Birth weight can be analyzed as a continuous variable or as a dichotomous one using the standard cutpoint of 2500 g or less to indicate low birth weight.
(14) This was true whether hostility or coronary occlusion was treated as a dichotomous variable or as a continuous variable.
(15) In this paper attention is restricted to dichotomous response variables that frequently arise in toxicological studies, such as the occurrence of fetal death or a particular malformation.
(16) Subsequent patient management and the dichotomous behavior of the lymphoid infiltrates are discussed.
(17) The clinical observations comprised plaque index scores, dichotomous measurements of gingival redness and suppuration, pocket depths and attachment levels.
(18) Previously reported incidence of exclusive right hemisphere language may be an artifact of dichotomizing a continuous variable.
(19) The Breslow and Mantel-Cox statistics were used to compute survival (surgery-free) dichotomized by prognostic variables.
(20) When ratings were dichotomized (ie, low v high neonatal illness and low v high parent education), the level of neonatal illness primarily influenced the likelihood of normal outcome, whereas the level of parent education influenced the degree of severity of the disability.