What's the difference between contravention and wrongdoer?
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.
Wrongdoer
Definition:
(n.) One who injures another, or who does wrong.
(n.) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
(2) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
(3) At the time when he should be campaigning for his allies, he has to sit in the position of the wrongdoer and defend himself."
(4) Most 4-year-olds judged a wrongdoer to experience positive emotions, focusing their justifications on the successful outcome of his action, whereas almost all 8-year-olds attributed negative feelings, focusing on the moral value of the wrongdoer's action.
(5) Like many of those who have been vilified, he seems to consider himself more wronged than wrongdoer; a victim of a dysfunctional system.
(6) International law was being flouted on a global scale and the international community was failing to prosecute wrongdoers, Ban said.
(7) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
(8) We will follow the facts wherever they go and we will determine whether to bring criminal charges against any companies or individual wrongdoers.” It is unusual for US authorities to seek a criminal prosecution of companies or executives, with prosecutors tending to accept an admittance of guilt, an apology from the chief executive and multimillion-dollar fines.
(9) It has subpoena power – excellent for commandeering embarrassing financial documents – and just enough resources and publicity power to really strike fear into Wall Street wrongdoers.
(10) It’s now a relic of a more violent age, a time when wrongdoers were whipped, put in the stocks or transported to distant countries for penal servitude.
(11) The bulk of NCP cases these days involve mediation with companies that are linked to adverse impacts through business relationships, rather than in which they are alleged to be wrongdoers themselves.
(12) This, together with the recent arrest of a billionaire Brazilian banker , is enough to tell the world that the rule of law operates in Brazil and wrongdoers will be apprehended.
(13) 4- and 5-year-olds attributed positive emotions to a wrongdoer even if his transgression was severe and if he did not gain any material profit from it.
(14) He said at the time: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.
(15) Under this, police can grant powers to civilians involved in crowd control so they can issue fines for offences such as littering, and can require suspected wrongdoers to give their name and address.
(16) A “serpent” and a “wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations” are among the kinder epithets hurled by mainland propagandists.
(17) Single-handedly, she turned the dull-sounding public accounts committee into the most rigorous scrutineer, excoriating wrongdoers and backsliders.
(18) What if your crime – if it can be called that – is to be born the son, grandson or great-grandson many times removed from those wrongdoers, their acts echoing in your blood and in your name?
(19) In a pinch, if niceness failed, he could presumably instil order on set by fixing the wrongdoers with an unsmiling stare.
(20) UK must do more to defeat Isis in Syria and Iraq, says May Read more “When they say that these are wronged Muslims getting revenge on their western wrongdoers, let’s remind them: from Kosovo to Somalia, countries like Britain have stepped in to save Muslim people from massacres.