What's the difference between contravention and obligation?

Contravention


Definition:

  • (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.

Obligation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obligating.
  • (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.
  • (n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for anouther, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.
  • (n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; as, to place others under obligations to one.
  • (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (5) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
  • (6) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
  • (7) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
  • (8) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
  • (9) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (12) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
  • (13) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
  • (14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
  • (15) These species are all obligately anaerobic, asaccharolytic, and generally nonreactive, and they grow poorly and slowly on media commonly used to isolate anaerobic bacteria.
  • (16) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
  • (17) In the present report we summarize our data on 144 obligate female carriers.
  • (18) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
  • (19) No serious side effects were reported and none of the patients was obliged to terminate treatment because of side effects.
  • (20) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.