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contravention

noun as in violation

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It accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company to sell products containing American components to Iran in contravention of sanctions.

From Time

And, he said, many of the stops continued to lack reasonable cause for suspicion — in contravention of the consent decree signed before Krasner arrived — and thus required his office to dismiss them.

The emails also show how NYPD officers downloaded the app onto their personal devices, in contravention of stated policy, and used the powerful and biased technology in a casual fashion.

As Sylvain notes, companies like Facebook sell their services to advertisers with the promise of being able to microtarget users for messaging—even when that may be in direct contravention of antidiscrimination laws.

For one thing, Baltimore’s consent decree requires that the city hire more police officers, in contravention of activist calls to greatly reduce spending on policing.

Such desperate actions are in contravention of their vows and faith to renounce violence in all forms.

Allowing them in, in a clear contravention of their earlier ruling, would have looked bad.

Publishing the pics would be a direct contravention of the code.

The first banishment for contravention of this regulation took place on January 6, 1905.

Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.

"Plump 'em up, and make 'em dainty," he advanced in contravention of his wife's talk of bread and beef.

This was in contravention to the solemn assurance given by the eastern Indians, of peace with New England.

Whenever a minister found himself galled or hindered, he would be inclined to suppose some contravention of the Bible.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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