Sentence example with the word 'contravention'

contravention

Last update: July 5, 2015


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The company is liable to a fine of twenty pounds a day if it should open the line in contravention of such order or direction.   [Please select]

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If conducted by government war-ships such a blockade was not in contravention to British interpretation of international law[1008].   [Please select]

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Descartes knew that many of the actions performed by the human body are not the result of conscious choice, and that some of them are in direct contravention of the will's commands.   [Please select]

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This would be no war of violence, and no contravention of Nature's ordinances, but, on the contrary, a return to her safe, healthy, and far-reaching methods.   [Please select]

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Now he that from rage kills himself, voluntarily, does this in contravention of Right Reason, which the law does not permit.   [Please select]

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William's good deeds for the benefit of the country were appreciated; his arbitrary measures in contravention to the Fundamental Law were attributed chiefly to his bad advisers.   [Please select]

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[1150] “You have obtained,” says he, addressing Piso, “a consular province with no other limits than those of your cupidity, in contravention of the law of your son-in-law.   [Please select]

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In contravention of the claims of Baltimore, a conveyance was made to him in 1682, of the town of New Castle, with the district twelve miles round it, and also of the territory extending thence southward to Cape Henlopen.   [Please select]

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It was contended by counsel for the people, that such testimony should not be allowedthat it was in contravention of every rule of evidence, and if permitted would defeat the ends of justice.   [Please select]

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