It was laid down that any who took the oath and afterwards contravened it, or any who would not agree to abide by the ordinance, should be forthwith "ousted from his office for ever.
The Scot called on men to destroy whatever contravened his religious ideas.
Would not the House have contravened the constitution, by taking from the President the power which by it is placed in him?
Other rules ignored were those against the demand for “garnish” and that which forbade the detention of a debtor in a Sponging House, an order constantly contravened by Huggins and Bambridge, as we have seen.
We have seen how in the earliest times it directly contravened the principles of constitutional freedom, which forbade it for simple pecuniary obligations unaccompanied by fraud.
Such divergence of effort and dissemination of means, scanty at the best, upon points one hundred and fifty to two hundred miles apart, contravened all sound principle; to remedy which no compensating vigor was discoverable in his conduct.
The ordinance in question contravenedthe provisions of the act 7th William III.
Chinese claims might exist which contravened our distinct rights under the Lhasa Convention, as recognized in the Anglo-Russian arrangement regarding Tibet, and confirmed by the Peking Convention.
It was pretended, that Wolsey's exercise of authority as papal legate contravened a statute of Richard II.
The oath ex officio, binding the taker to answer all questions that should be put to him, inasmuch as it contravened the generous maxim of English law that no one is obliged to criminate himself, provoked very just animadversion.
The operation of nature’s law may be contravened by the selfish, sordid, criminal acts of the human heart, but it cannot be frustrated.
The Trespass Act contravenedthis principle, and it also contravened the treaty.
It contravened in spirit and in detail much of what they understood by the Fourteen Points.
Likewise, thoughts repudiating the naked truth that killing was as ineluctable and natural in a being as its own breath, contravened any degree of understanding of the life that the fates circumscribed man to have.
Hence the following cases: (a) Negative precepts of the natural law may not be contravened in order to avoid the scandal of the weak; for such contravention is necessarily sinful.
Precepts of the divine law should becontravened on account of scandal of the weak, unless contravention of the law is a greater evil than permission of the scandal.
Affirmative precepts of the natural law should be contravened in order to avoid the scandal of the weak, but only when such scandal is a greater evil than the omission of the thing commanded.
If, Mr. Chairman, you mean to have a constitution, you must discover a power to which the acknowledged right is attached of pronouncing the invalidity of the acts of the legislature, which contravened the instrument.
Then the House leaders in open defiance of the "head of the party" prepared and reported a soldiers' bonus bill which contravened the express purposes of the Executive regarding this legislation.
Messalina was a most unworthy mother; Agrippina contravened every other womanly instinct in order that her son might reign.
Clodia, studied from the point of heredity, might have been either good or bad; but she would have contravened all precedents in her family had she not been extreme in one or the other.
Now, the Dutch have infringed this article in many instances during the present war, both in Europe and America; and, as they have so openly contravened one treaty, the English are not obliged to observe another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contravened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
