Sentence example with the word 'contravened'

contravened

Last update: October 5, 2015


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On the ground that it contravened the sixth canon of Nicaea and infringed the rights of Alexandria and Antioch.   [Please select]

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Every process in the physical sphere must be supposed to have its equations satisfied within that sphere: else the doctrine of the conservation of energy would be contravened, and thus the causation contemplated could no longer be contemplated as physical.   [Please select]

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And while there was nothing in it which contravened the professed policy of the United States, it ran counter to the irrepressible tendency of the advancing white population to spread at will over the great western domain.   [Please select]

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I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content, he added, with emphasis, to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountainsmy nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysedmade useless.   [Please select]

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This mutilation of the dead (in cases where the guilty rulers have contravened the laws of nature and heaven) was practised even in imperial China; for (see page 57) the founder of the dynasty, on taking possession of the last Shang Emperor's palace, deliberately fired several arrows into the body of the suicide Emperor.   [Please select]

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