contravention

Examples of contravened

contravened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In such instances, the issues were clear : should a man live with another man's wife, he had contravened customary law.
Further, it is misleading to imply that this contravened the beliefs of the founders.
Unfortunately, this absence results in claims that have little or no grounding in data, often contravened by facts that are biological certainties.
Her use of even draws our attention to some expectation that will be contravened.
In the best-case scenarios, they constitute parallel structures to those defined in the municipal codes, but too often these are contravened.
It is unconvincing since there is nothing mistaken in regarding speech, in certain circumstances, as a type of revelation and usage is not contravened.
A rule in a cell is contravened by all (but only those) rules to the immediate right of that cell.
Note: the input to each listing rule is of course the output of the rule that is contravened.
In any language there are some regularities of structure that are, even so, frequently and properly contravened, since without them the language would be unworkable.
James, by contrast, had contravened explicit law.
However, if my local bookshop in my constituency had attempted to make the same offer, it would have contravened the publishers' net book agreement.
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