How to Use contravene in a Sentence

contravene

verb

• The overcrowded dance club contravened safety regulations.
• Those contravening the law could face up to a year and a half in prison.
  — Elias Meseret, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• His failure to do so contravened the board’s code of practice.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 May 2023
• But LePage doesn’t seem to mind contravening the will of the people.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
• In an increasing number of states, that choice could contravene the law.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
• As in Akron, all of these restrictions appeared to contravene the trimester framework of Roe.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022
• The problem was that the league had forbidden that practice and threatened to fine any player who contravened the order.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Five months after the game's release, some have spotted a design on the shirt sleeves which appears to contravene the game's child-friendly rating.
  — SI.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• Moscow says the system is in full compliance with the agreement and has denied contravening the treaty.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• The presence of Pooh’s likeness would contravene Olympic rules of sponsorship and branding.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
• So Trump didn’t have to exercise his pardon power on the man’s behalf, as promised, but stepped in to ensure that he couldn’t be punished at all, contravening the Navy’s rules.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• Despite this, the assurance was ignored, and the band’s actions clearly contravened the agreement with Future Sound Asia.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• This week, the player appeared in court with his wife Vadja - who was also accused of contravening tax laws - and spent about 10 minutes in a session, with his lawyer also present.
  — SI.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• The ministry said the government will step up enforcement measures against people who contravene their stay-at-home notices.
  — Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• Burning Man officials say the growing fame of artists at the event doesn’t contravene the community’s principles.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018
• Given that the new rules directly contravene existing law, those challenges may have a decent chance of success.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Lawsuits and claims for damages could follow if international treaties were deemed to have been contravened.
  — Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Critics say that contravenes the United Nations refugee convention of 1951.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
• Such a move would contravene sanctions, triggering the yacht’s impoundment.
  — Nick Kostov and Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• The Apple statement also doesn't contravene the central significance of the attacks.
  — Wired, 6 Sep. 2019
• DACA contravenes the elementary principle that the legislative branch ought to pass laws and the executive branch ought to enforce them.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• The ruling contravenes a decision from Favreto’s own court, which ordered da Silva arrested in April.
  — Ernesto Londoño, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• Chinese tech companies such as Baidu have become adept at filtering content that contravenes these rules.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• And the newfound alliance with Democrats is set to be short-lived, erased by the next impolitic presidential comment or by Democratic demands contravening Trump's agenda.
  — Zeke J Miller, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• Only three in a panel of five judges ruled in favour of a ban: one did so by arguing that instant divorce contravened not India’s constitution but Islamic law.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Guardian Facebook ban Facebook has banned events that contravene social distancing orders put in place by state governments.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2020
• And by some estimates, as many as two-thirds of those boats engage in fishing that contravenes international or national laws.
  — Andrew Jacobs, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• This argument does not only contravene Supreme Court precedent.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
• This contravenes Mississippi’s criminal rules, which require that during a defendant’s initial court appearance, a judge should find out if that defendant can afford a lawyer and appoint one if not.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2023
• All discussions to that end have been a sham, obviously so: contravening international law, settlement began virtually days after the end of the 1967 war—particularly in the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem—and has not let up since.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024