(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.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.