Hence, so long as a man acts in obedience to the laws of his rulers, he in nowise contravenes his reason, for in obedience to reason he transferred the right of controlling his actions from his own hands to theirs.
For charity is an end of but inferior holiness which must not be more than a means compared to the main end of maintaining bourgeois society, and whenever it contravenes this main purpose, charity loses its character of a good end.
It is obvious that in this passage, and indeed throughout the volume, Chillingworth contravenes the prevailing theories of the Anglican church, full as distinctly as those of the Roman.
Yet it has, in a remarkable degree, what seems inartificial to our own taste, and contravenes a good general precept of Horace; the action passes almost wholly in recital.
It thus directlycontravenes the purpose of the Platonic education--the formation of characters wherein Reason shall effectively controul all the emotions and desires.
Consequently, in his treatment of space and time, he refers to what are both to him and in fact objects of perception in terms of perception, and thereby contravenes the second implication of perception to which attention has been drawn.
Again, in the second place, if we go on to ask how Kant is misled into doing this, we see that it is because he contravenes the first implication of perception.
This is an aristocratic idea, and contravenes the spirit of the constitution.
Any law made in contravention of the limitations imposed by this section shall, so far as it contravenesthose limitations, be void.
Any law made in contravention of the restrictions imposed by this section shall, so far as itcontravenes those restrictions, be void.
Jacobi's admission that women could not claim the vote while it was necessary to defend opinions by arms, is a vital one, for it contravenes her entire argument.
The bishop rejoined, “I have just said, and I say again, that I reject altogether the judgment of laymen, and anything that contravenes the canons.
The bishop said, “The judgment here given I reject, because it contravenes the canons and our law .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contravenes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
