(n.) The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strategic intervention, through control of the production line, in order to correct the contraventions evident in the GMP programme, is the first necessity in guaranteeing microbiological quality.
(2) There is no suggestion that any of the FTSE 100 firms have engaged in practices in contravention of tax laws.
(3) Despite suffering many years of a brutal occupation, which includes the inhuman treatment of Palestinian children, locked up in Israeli jails in contravention of international human rights conventions, the Palestinians we meet have maintained their dignity and humanity.
(4) It also allows the corrections department to keep secret the identity of doctors who collaborate with executions by administering lethal injections in contravention of their ethical code.
(5) Without revealing his identity, in contravention of the Wikipedia code of conduct, Shapps justified his edits as the removal of politically slanted or unreferenced "info" and by claiming "content must be verifiable".
(6) Baird said he would be urgently auditing these donations: “I have told the party’s new state director, as a matter of urgency, to investigate the allegations made at ICAC and respond to them promptly – including by dealing with any payments that have been made to the party in contravention of the law,” Baird said.
(7) Allowing him to speak on campus could easily occasion grave offence to Muslim students, and could thereby be argued by the extremists in the home office to be a contravention of the directive to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
(8) There is no evidence at this point of time that would indicate a contravention of national environment law has occurred.
(9) It is certainly Standard Chartered ducking and weaving, but at the end of the day they are the ones advising Adani on the biggest coal mine in the world.” It was possible, he said, that Adani Mining had received the Standard Chartered loan via an internal transfer from another Adani subsidiary: “That would be a very polite way of putting it.” Standard Chartered maintained that it was not in contravention of its lending policies, which state that it will “restrict the provision of financial services” to clients in the fossil fuel power generation sector who would have a significant impact on Unesco world heritage sites or protected wetlands.
(10) In summary these concerns are that Transfield’s statement … fails to disclose that causing or contributing to human rights abuses may give rise to individual liability for Transfield directors, officers and employees, legal, financial and reputational risks for Transfield and contravention of the policy and practice commitments of many of Transfield’s investors, financiers and clients,” the NBIA response said.
(11) The KPMG report says a key clause in most third-party ownership contracts “authorises the investor to promote the definitive transfer of the player through the corresponding Fifa agents” – in direct contravention of Fifa regulations.
(12) … We do not feel it would appropriate for the police service to voluntarily act in contravention of legislation."
(13) For the umpteenth time, Yarl's Wood recently crashed into the news thanks to a bungled deportation of a Sudanese family, in contravention of a ministerial intervention, and a hunger strike and sit-in allegedly met with a brutal response by staff.
(14) Its statement said: "He was arrested outside London on suspicion of corruption allegations in contravention of section one of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906."
(15) Blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, are defined by the UN as gems that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognised governments, and are used to fund military action against those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the UN security council.
(16) However, a spokesman for BASW, which has 14,000 members across the UK, told Guardian Social Care Network: "We profoundly regret yet another example of the publicly-funded college setting itself up in opposition to an independent, social worker led-professional association in contravention of the agreement which it signed with BASW less than five months ago.
(17) It is concluded continuous monitoring of the sex distribution should be undertaken as contravention of the United Nations' Convention concerning abolition of all forms of discrimination against women may possibly occur.
(18) Critics have claimed the law is in direct contravention of recommendations from the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
(19) Five Russian cinema chains have been fined a total of more than 4m rubles (£68,000) for showing Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street in apparent contravention of laws banning the promotion of illegal drugs.
(20) To exercise such a power where people are owed protection and particularly where they have passed security and character checks may be a contravention of their right to a permanent protection visa under the law.” McDuff said the government was using national interest to pursue a political aim of providing only temporary protection to refugees.
Infraction
Definition:
(n.) The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated yearly hospital admission rate for nonfatal myocardial infraction is 2.1 per 100,000 married women aged 30-39 years who do not use oral contraceptives and 5.6 per 100,000 for married women of this age who do.
(2) Until the final quarter San Diego had looked lost in the windy conditions at Mile High, conceding repeated neutral-zone infractions and failing to show any adventure on offense.
(3) Typical manic episodes could be the cause of penal infractions, usually benign.
(4) As at the five other jails in Philadelphia, inmates and advocates have accused Curran-Fromhold of overcrowding, unhealthy conditions , inadequate mental health services and repeated infractions by guards.
(5) It is suggested that infraction of the metatarsal head resulted from microfracture caused by abnormal stress.
(6) The EC has rejected both proposals and commenced formal infraction proceedings against the UK.
(7) The outstanding features in this study are: (1) the occurrence of infraction during the recovery period and the noxious role played by smoking; (2) the contrast between the presence of atherosclerotic coronary lesions in middle age subjects and their absence in younger subjects (infarction due to spasm or thrombosis?
(8) There is, for example, the case of a 34-year-old local woman forced to remove her headscarf by male police officers following an alleged minor traffic infraction, a 10-year-old elementary school student in a nearby suburb who is bullied everyday by his classmates labelling him an Isis terrorist, or the group of East Michigan college students arrested after they peacefully protested a campus screening of the controversial blockbuster American Sniper .
(9) In the cases of ventricular tachycardia with old myocardial infraction, the initiation and termination of the tachycardia could be achieved by programmed electrical stimulation in 13 out of 18 patients.
(10) Critics said the scheme, under which police are also targeting infractions by lorry and car drivers, distracted from the primary issues of better cycling infrastructure and the perils of heavy goods vehicles.
(11) Noncompliance with universal precautions occurs frequently during the care of patients who have undergone surgery, with the type of infraction and specific offender varying according to patient locale.
(12) Fifty-two patients with myocardial infraction complicated by bundle branch block (27 RBBB and 25 LBBB) survived the hospital period (1967--1972), and were followed up to December 1976.
(13) Penalties have been assessed for rule infractions to aid in curtailing the misuse of such equipment, as occurs for example, when the helmet is used to spear tackle an opponent or when the facemask is grasped, pulled, or twisted by an opposing player.
(14) Photograph: Felix Clay Of 13 deportees the Guardian interviewed in Tijuana last week, nine said they were picked up for minor infractions.
(15) Finally he remembered a man who had been suspended by the ANC for some minor infraction of discipline and who was only too pleased to show repentance by driving his president anywhere he wanted at any time of day or night.
(16) The association of a primary cardiac lymphoma in a 53-year-old man with a previously documented myocardial infraction was found.
(17) In addition to periostosis and sclerosis there is also a clearing as an expression of interrupted bone in a form of infraction, fissure or fracture.
(18) A case of Freiberg's Infraction of the second metatarsal is presented.
(19) During 1416 appendectomy operations we examined the ileum and found 42 cases of terminal ileum infraction (ileum terminale duplex) caused by the cicatrisation of the mesenterium.
(20) Their rate of absenteeism and suspensions for continuing abuse and infraction of the rules was four times that of the controls.