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"contravention" Definitions
  1. the fact of doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule

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Now, you are directly acting in contravention to his request.
It accepted at the time that the contravention was not deliberate.
Some Chinese companies trade with North Korea in contravention of United Nations sanctions.
Justice Alito's approach was in direct contravention to his opinion in Stormans Inc. v.
That policy was in "direct contravention" of federal and state laws, the lawsuit said.
This practice is in contravention of laws set up to protect these historically sensitive sites.
The policy was in "direct contravention" of federal and state laws, according to the lawsuit.
The letter said the book contained elements in contravention of the country's Intelligence Service Act.
Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) to prohibit the use of funds in contravention of religious freedom.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the bill was a serious contravention of the "one China" principle.
He said he acted at the then-Republican nominee's direction, in contravention of campaign finance laws.
You'll almost certainly get a form letter telling you the abuse isn't in contravention of their policies.
That is in direct contravention of the power placed in the high court by the founding fathers.
Whether the conservative justices will sustain virtual bans on abortion, in contravention of settled Supreme Court precedent.
"We urge Israeli authorities to stop these operations, that are in contravention of international law," the spokesman said.
There is no evidence that Iran is currently pursuing a nuclear weapon in contravention of the deal's terms.
Boeing is also attending, although the firm made it clear it was not in contravention of the embargo.
The suit said Ahmed's rights were "violated in contravention of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments" of the U.S. Constitution.
But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei repeated China's claim that the case was a contravention of international law.
Those who break Australia's Privacy Act can be fined up to 1.7 million Australian dollars ($1.1 million) per contravention.
Since last September, over 10,000 North Koreans have been registered to work in Russia—in contravention of a UN ban.
The test violated sanctions not covered by the new deal but rather in contravention of existing U.N. Security Council resolutions.
A Queen last used her royal prerogative in contravention of her ministers in 1708, when Queen Anne vetoed government legislation.
Spotify's policies mean that more than one contravention can result in a podcast creator being barred from the platform altogether.
The settlers, it argues, were not deported or transferred there, in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, but went voluntarily.
The following year the company is found to be "in contravention" of the country's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
That requirement is in direct contravention of individual U.S. states allowing "shell corporations" to be formed without a "beneficial ownership" declaration.
This appears to be in clear contravention of existing rules, as Turkey's purge was well underway when the licences were issued.
I understand your urge to intervene: What she did is not just immoral but also in contravention of her employer's mission.
After the investment was made, Formula One cancelled plans for the IPO, putting the fund in contravention of its own mandate.
North Korea's continued development of fissile materials and missiles is an apparent contravention of its recent agreement with the United States.
Otherwise, it would be a pretty silly move to show up to your place of employment in direct contravention of his contract.
Kasich said voters in the important Indiana primary "ought to vote for me," in direct contravention of the terms of the alliance.
But for more than a decade, the United States acted in direct contravention of those agreements, which it had pledged to uphold.
However, the CCI said it did not find any contravention in respect of Google's specialized search design, AdWords and online distribution agreements.
Keeping these men confined, in direct contravention of domestic and international law, constitutes psychological torture, regardless of where they may be held.
Human Rights Watch warned that the agreement's justice portions were woefully inadequate, allowing war criminals to escape punishment in contravention of international law.
It was alleged one of Koch's vice-captains had given direct advice to one of the European players in contravention of the rules.
This was in direct contravention to the Crosier's hopes that Simon would grow large enough to eventually be eligible for corrective heart surgery.
And, as I said, I think we're going to see an intensification of Iran's own nuclear activities in contravention of the nuclear deal.
"Teekay Group has not traded and will not trade with Iran and will not act in contravention of any trading sanctions," Teekay said.
Earlier at the protests in Caracas, National Guard forces could be seen firing tear gas canisters horizontally at demonstrators in contravention of international norms.
Trump's White House continues to demonstrate that they will push their agenda in contravention to the Constitution if they find that to be necessary.
The C.I.A., however, in contravention of American policy, was supplying arms to the Katangan rebels who were bankrolled by the Belgian conglomerate Union Minière.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement that the regulation stated that carriers must not knowingly ship items in contravention of the rules.
Rome is considering sanctioning Vivendi, saying the company built a controlling stake in Telecom Italia without informing the government, in contravention of state rules.
Thus, by continuing to deprive the unincorporated territories of representation, we perpetuate an injustice that sullies our nation in contravention of the founders' intent.
" He said the ruling showed "no willingness at all on the Boeing side to comply and confirms they are clearly in contravention with WTO rules.
And the government persisted in forcibly repatriating North Korean refugees to face near certain persecution and even death, in contravention of China's international legal obligations.
Trump's new use of executive power to limit asylum claims, in an apparent contravention of international law, will soon get its own day in court.
" He said the ruling showed "no willingness at all on the Boeing side to comply and confirms they are clearly in contravention with WTO rules.
"They were ballistic missiles and that puts it in contravention of U.N. resolutions," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kotaro Nogami said at a regular press briefing.
The US has repeatedly accused Russia of deploying a land-based cruise missile system in contravention of a 1987 US-Russia arms control deal. 7.
This definitely looks more like the risk-happy Uber of the early days that often acted in contravention of local regulators to achieve its business goals.
"China adamantly opposes any actions in contravention of the United Nations Security Council resolutions," Xi said in a readout that was released by the Chinese side.
Why it matters: Bolton is the first senior administration official to confirm that North Korea launched the short-range ballistic missiles in contravention of UN resolutions.
"The court's reprimand of government counsel suggested to the jury—incorrectly—that the government had acted improperly and in contravention of court rules," the prosecutors wrote.
"These rollbacks are indefensible, both in terms of their costs to consumers and their contravention of Congressional intent," they wrote in a letter spearheaded by Sens.
The reclusive state conducted a fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February, both in contravention of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Fresh evidence shows that military hardware that was supplied to US allies has been distributed in contravention of arms deals to militia groups, including UAE-backed separatists.
"You also opened new short positions on various holdings that you committed to divesting in your Ethics Agreement, in contravention of that agreement," the OGE letter said.
ZAR X plans to facilitate listings of restricted share schemes, currently trading over-the-counter (OTC), which the FSB ruled were in contravention of capital markets regulations.
It shifted its legation to Tel Aviv 24 years later after the Israeli parliament declared Jerusalem the eternal and indivisible capital in contravention of a U.N. resolution.
CBA admitted in part to failing to identify, monitor and report money transfers over A$10,000 ($7,566), in contravention of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws.
It would be better, probably, if our cooperation wasn't in direct contravention of the government, but we have to work with the reality in which we live.
Their case is that Britain's exclusion from EU Council meetings since the Brexit vote would in contravention of European treaties unless Article 50 had already been triggered.
"But aliens who enter the United States unlawfully through the southern border in contravention of this proclamation will be ineligible to be granted asylum," the President wrote.
Schaake asked Mogherini in a written submission whether she was aware of such fuel deliveries, and if EU member states' territory was used in contravention of sanctions.
Ahmad Seddeeq, the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Iceland, called it "a contravention to the religious rights of freedom" that criminalizes a centuries-old tradition.
Some local administrations have begun taking action in contravention of the government in Madrid (highlighting another Spanish tradition: the great tension between the capital and the regions).
This is yet another example (witness the Environmental Protection Agency) of an agency acting in contravention of its mission without a check or a balance in sight.
Most messages sent by the system are "Amber Alerts," usually involving children who have been taken by one of their parents in contravention of a court order.
I found that if they had shared the data, they would have been in contravention of the first and second data protection principles of the Data Protection Act.
It moved the facility 24 years later to Tel Aviv, after the Israeli parliament declared Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital in contravention of a United Nations resolution.
Hong repeated that China thought the Philippines arbitration case was a contravention of international law and went against the consensus Beijing and Manila have had on the issue.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's energy ministry said it had conducted the first test of a German-made electricity turbine that was installed in Crimea in contravention of European sanctions.
"McAuliffe's blanket executive order abuses the power of his office and is in contravention of the judgment of the Virginia legislature," he wrote in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"The location is dangerous and this type of gathering is in contravention of the current instruction of the UK Government," the police said in a post on Wednesday.
The problem was "the Enterprise," using the scheme to secretly fund arms and training for the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, in contravention of the Boland Amendment.
He regularly chucks rocks at the passing dump trucks because, he says, in addition to the destruction of the valley, they operate on Sundays in contravention of Lebanese law.
This time around, for good measure, it pledged to keep women out of a big temple in the southern state of Kerala, in contravention of the Supreme Court's orders.
On Saturday British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said the Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law and then forced to sail into Iran.
"DStv Media Sales (Pty) Ltd has admitted to price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions in contravention of South Africa's Competition Act," the commission said in a statement.
"People have been detained for over three years in contravention of the laws of Papua New Guinea in abusive conditions," said Elaine Pearson, Australia Director at Human Rights Watch.
Cardenas, who is due to die on Wednesday, was not given the chance to speak with consular officials in contravention of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Sada said.
At Hammersmith magistrates' court this week it admitted selling elephant ivory in contravention of Article 8 of Council Regulation, under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
A judge from the Northern District of California -- where cases get appealed to the 9th Circuit -- ordered officials to resume accepting asylum seekers in contravention of a presidential order.
Melnikov, who visited Calvey in custody on Wednesday, said the U.S. national was sharing a cell with people being held over non-economic crimes in contravention of prison regulations.
Should an applicant be rejected, there are currently no state-sponsored lawyers to assist them with their appeal, in contravention of both Greek and European law, Mr. Worthington said.
That military assistance was unlawfully withheld in contravention of the president's constitutional obligation to "faithfully execute" the law as Congress enacts it, the United States Government Accountability Office found.
Police spokesman Lungelo Dlamini said the arrested students "were blocking the entrance of the university in contravention of the court order" and were being held at a nearby station.
"The United Nations deemed that Mr. Assange is arbitrarily detained in contravention of international commitments," Anna Ekberg, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, said in a statement.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe there may be a contravention of a requirement under the law," Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Stephen Wong, said in a statement.
Last week, CNN revealed that military hardware supplied to US allies had been distributed in contravention of arms deals to militia groups, including separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates.
The State Department's Inspector General last week issued a stinging critique of Clinton's mishandling of her email messages by using a private email server, in contravention of revised departmental regulations.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe there may be a contravention of a requirement under the law," Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Stephen Wong, said in a statement.
The disappearance of the Hong Kong booksellers has refueled fears that Beijing is trying to clamp down on free expression in Hong Kong, in contravention of the city's mini-constitution.
In Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang reiterated China's opposition to unilateral sanctions by other countries, adding it could investigate for itself any contravention of its laws or international obligations.
The settlements in Palestine/Israel are considered by some to be in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention; but even that is in dispute, since Israel (unsurprisingly) does not agree.
"Anyone who therefore participates in the demonstrations will do so in contravention of public order and security act and the law will take its course," Nyathi said in a statement.
Hochtief said in a statement that it will submit to the court that its contravention of the rules was inadvertent and that it did not seek or obtain trading profit.
He also delivered a speech defending China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, in direct contravention of Australia's foreign policy position (and indeed Labor's party platform) on this issue.
Her promotion comes at a time of increased tension between North Korea and the United States, as Mr. Kim tests nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in contravention of international norms.
What they're saying: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the reported launch was in contravention of UN resolutions banning North Korea from launching short-range ballistic missiles, per the BBC.
"These actions are in contravention of China's own laws and international commitments," said U.S. Ambassador Keith Harper, who read out the statement backed by Australia, Japan and nine European countries.
They are particularly angry with central European countries in the Visegrad group of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, which have taken almost no refugees, in contravention of their obligations.
"We believe AB InBev is in contravention of one of the conditions set by Competition Tribunal when they approved the merger with SAB," said one farmer, who declined to be named.
Specifically, Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and two of his deputies say that the EPA's action on related regulatory actions represents "a shadow regulatory structure" in contravention of the court's stay.
They should also challenge the fact that settlement products enjoy the same duty free status as products made in Israel, although they are in direct contravention of the stated U.S. position.
After Keirstead got the endorsement Rouda tried to petition to override it at the full convention, but either narrowly missed the deadline or was shut out in contravention of party rules.
The statement said that the aggression represents a dangerous development and a blatant and unacceptable aggression against the sovereignty of an Arab state in contravention of the rules of international law.
"We are very, very concerned about the recent increase in violence and that includes actions that are in contravention of the cessation of hostilities," spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing.
Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), for instance, said on the Senate floor last week that "DeVos "allowing federal funds to be used to arm teachers is in direct contravention of federal law.
He directed the Department of Health and Human Services to consider policies that would allow the sale of new insurance plans lacking many ACA protections, in contravention of the ACA's text.
But Republicans say that the leaking of his name was a criminal act in contravention of laws that mask the identify of US citizens caught up in surveillance operations targeting foreign nationals.
"The scale of this image content scraping suggests this is not an unintended glitch, but a systematic contravention of Google's commitments to the FTC," Yelp said in the letter to the FTC.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would take every action it could to prevent the tanker delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions.
It accuses the Russian search giant of poaching key Zvooq staff for its own music streaming service, in contravention of an NDA the two parties allegedly signed in February of this year.
North and South Korea are still technically at war and tensions have risen in the last week with the North's test firing of a ballistic missile in contravention of United Nations resolutions.
Yet, Planned Parenthood and their allies are now seeking to use a frivolous federal lawsuit to shut down the production of these public records in direct contravention of Washington's public records law.
According to the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the directive lacks legal merit as it is in contravention of their constitutional rights.
It was this: If I used the British "tomahto," the very word from which I had boldly declared independence, was I cravenly pandering to foreign usage in contravention of my own beliefs?
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions against a Chinese military agency and its director for buying defense equipment from Russia, in contravention of a sweeping U.S. sanctions bill signed in 2017.
Buying time Trump could find himself browbeaten into joining reluctantly with American allies to censure the Saudis for what appears to be a gross act of inhumanity and contravention of international law.
It said the attorney general's "highly irregular statement ... supported by the two chiefs of the security forces" was "tantamount to the effective sidelining of the judiciary and in direct contravention of the constitution".
"(The) working group has made the judgement that Assange has been arbitrarily detained in contravention of international commitments," a spokeswoman for the Swedish Foreign Ministry said, confirming an earlier report by the BBC.
At the same time, Turkey has threatened to force up to two million of the Syrian refugees it hosts back across the border, in contravention of international law, effectively repopulating traditional Kurdish enclaves.
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - An undisclosed competing nation has been summoned to explain the presence of discarded needles in the Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village in contravention of a ban, organizers said on Monday.
By accident or design, Trump established a red line -- an apparent contravention of efforts by his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis to tone down tensions with Pyongyang.
The makers of some of the world's most recognizable snacks are responsible for wide-scale deforestation in direct contravention of their company policies, according to an investigation by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
Every day, millions of Americans see their real income and wealth: This all occurs in contravention of laws and rules put in place by the Wall Street reforms after the 2008 financial crisis.
Happily, the President, who shook hands with top CEOs at a press conference on Friday in contravention of his own government's advice, tested negative for the novel coronavirus, according to the White House.
"Iran has proved that its sickening enthusiasm for putting juveniles to death, in contravention of international law, knows no bounds," said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International's deputy Middle East and North Africa program director.
" Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, said she was "deeply troubled that NOAA is politicizing weather prediction critical for the protection of life and property in contravention of internal operations services and policy directives.
The UAE failed to inform the Obama administration that Zayed was coming to the United States, a contravention of typical diplomatic courtesy that left the Obama White House concerned it had been misled.
Kerry said the Syrian regime had "forced the surrender" of Daraya in contravention of the February cessation of hostilities agreement, but Lavrov said the local accord was an "example" that should be "replicated".
The subpoenas were issued in December 2017 as part of a U.S. investigation into violations of sanctions targeting North Korea's nuclear weapons program, including money laundering and contravention of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act.
Trump, the master of disruption, backed the British exit from the EU and hopes more countries follow suit -- in direct contravention of decades of US foreign policy that saw stability in a united Europe.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow remained committed to the agreements it struck with Ankara, but that Russia considered the attacks in Idlib to be unacceptable and in contravention of Moscow's deal with Ankara.
"Congress never intended PROMESA to be used to grant Puerto Rico's creditors a priority, yet your fiscal plans would appear to do so, which is a clear contravention of Congressional intent," the letter reads.
The subpoenas were issued in December 2017 as part of a U.S. investigation into violations of sanctions targeting North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, including money laundering and contravention of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act.
" In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that: "The regulation states that common carriers cannot knowingly ship items in contravention of the entity list or other export control authorities.
These were here "the human rights situation in Crimea, annexed by Russia in contravention of international law, and Russia's use of military force in the Kerch Strait, and abusive checks in the Azov Sea".
Lacruz of Fray Matias said at least 30 migrants had been irregularly detained at the Tapachula facility despite having applied for asylum with the Mexican Refugee Help Commission (COMAR), in contravention of Mexican law.
In Indiana University's case, keeping on a faculty member whose views are in such obvious contravention of moral decency and respect renders the university's expectation of good moral behavior from students void and moot.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States will take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday.
"The Authority considers this an act of blatant disregard of not only other licensees' rights but also the Authority's directives and in contravention of license conditions," the CA said in the letter, dated Aug 1.
Indeed he did not even declare Iran in contravention of the deal's nuclear weapons curbs, instead launching a broader assault on the Islamic Republic's mischief-making in the region, and poor human rights at home.
He explained: So while sports fans cheer the newfound ability to legally wager on games, advocates for legalized marijuana and sanctuary cities might see a pathway to blocking federal authority in contravention of states' rights.
But the selection of Mattis for Defense secretary, in contravention to the required cooling-off period, has given the impression that the military will have far more power in Trump's administration, said retired Lt. Gen.
Owing to machinations of the area's then-monarch, this did not happen, and since then India, in contravention of UN resolutions, has denied Kashmiris the right to have a plebiscite and decide their own fate.
"A parole board is no more entitled to subject an offender to the penalty of life in prison in contravention of this rule than is a legislature or a sentencing court," the state court said.
The former football player, Marvin Washington, for instance, is contending that the Controlled Substances Act has impeded his ability to transact business in states where pot is legal in contravention of the Constitution's commerce clause.
Police said in a statement on Friday it had declined to honor CORD's notification to march, saying it would be in contravention of a court order issued on May 26 barring any demonstrations against IEBC.
The election official overseeing Chow's race -- held to fill the seat of disqualified Demosisto lawmaker Nathan Law -- refused to allow her candidacy however, arguing that this stance was also in contravention of the city's constitution.
Saying that Guzman's captivity appeared to be "unnecessarily harsh" and in contravention of minimum U.N. standards for the treatment of prisoners, the human rights group has requested access to his cell to verify the conditions.
The earliest of them were designed to remove protections for middle-class homeowners, appoint people to his cabinet in contravention of law, freeze regulation of businesses, and make a symbolic gesture against the Affordable Care Act.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, failed to appreciate the spectacle in the sensitive compartmented information facility -- shorthanded on Capitol Hill to "SCIF" -- into which some lawmakers had plunged with insecure cellphones in contravention of the rules.
"We found no reason to believe that any of these shares were traded in contravention of the Financial Markets Act," said Brandon Topham, divisional executive for investigation and enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday that the United States would take every action it could to prevent the tanker sailing in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions.
In 2016 a senator named Sam Dastyari was caught defending the Chinese government's fiercely disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea, in contravention of the views of both his party (Labor) and the Australian government.
But as a populist government in debt-laden Italy lays out plans to spend more borrowed money in clear contravention of EU rules, the deposit scheme and euro zone budget are becoming a more distant prospects.
With regard to North Korea's nuclear program, Tillerson said the administration is willing to use so-called secondary sanctions to target foreign companies that continue to do business with Pyongyang in contravention of United Nations sanctions.
To that end, the Committee directs that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used in contravention of 5 CFR § 2635, the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch.
His appointment ends a period of home rule from Madrid that Mr. Rajoy imposed in late October after the previous Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, and other separatist lawmakers declared unilateral independence, in contravention of Spain's Constitution.
It also claims that it's in contravention of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, and that it violates the Establishment Clause, which prevents creation of laws that establish an official state religion, or favor one over another.
It considered the breach to be a "serious contravention of Principle 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998" — which states that appropriate technical and organisational measures must be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data.
A lawyer for the German Animal Welfare Federation, Martin Wilmsen, told CNBC Tuesday that the case should set a legal benchmark by spelling out that killing male chicks is in contravention to the country's animal welfare act.
Bastareaud was cited for "verbally abusing the Benetton Rugby flanker, Sebastian Negri Da Oleggio, in the 80th minute of the match in contravention of Law 9.12," European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The decision of the DUP to support it is in direct contravention of the (2014) Stormont House Agreement which ruled out any amnesties and instead provided a range of mechanisms to deal with the past," she said.
"Iran has proved that its sickening enthusiasm for putting juveniles to death, in contravention of international law, knows no bounds," Magdalena Mughrabi, deputy Middle East and North Africa program director at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
"Any proposals or actions advocating 'Hong Kong independence' are in contravention of the constitutional order of Hong Kong and the provisions of the Basic Law," Ronald Chan, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, said in a statement.
MUELLER TEAM PUTS ITS FOOT DOWN, FILES MOTION AGAINST JUDGE Video "The court's reprimand of government counsel suggested to the jury— incorrectly — that the government had acted improperly and in contravention of court rules," the prosecutors wrote.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Steelmakers in China's Hebei province have built new plants in contravention of state measures aimed at tackling overcapacity, and have kept mills running that should have been shut down, China's pollution watchdog said on Tuesday.
Eventually, though, they will actively check vehicles by inspecting individual registration papers and hand out fines of 20 euros, or $23, to car drivers and €75 to truck drivers found to be in contravention of the rules.
However, the complaint argues that the court should restrain the state's officials from imposing future quarantines on individuals in contravention of their constitutional rights, in light of an outbreak of the Zika virus and other potential emerging epidemics.
Where case processing delays prevent asylees from accessing the basic resettlement benefits they are entitled to under the U.N. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the U.S. is furthermore in possible contravention of our international treaty obligations.
The Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk lodged proceedings against Facebook in the country's Federal Court on Monday, alleging "serious and/or repeated interferences with privacy in contravention of Australian privacy law," according to an online release published Monday.
A European Union spokeswoman said it "risks diminishing Hong Kong's international reputation as a free and open society" and was in contravention of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Hong Kong is a signatory.
Russia fired officials who allowed Smolenkov to flee the country via Montenegro, which he did in contravention of a ban on employees of the presidential administration traveling to the Balkan country, Interfax news agency reported on Sep. 13.
BHP has faced increasing pressure from investors worried that some mineral lobby groups, particularly in Australia, are promoting coal use in contravention of the goals of the Paris climate pact, and have urged BHP to stop funding them.
Forcing Russian economic entities to act in contravention of U.S. sanctions may lead to an extension of secondary sanctions to these entities, limit their ability to work in the global market and further harm Russia's economy, it added.
"The oversight board has a responsibility to the people of Puerto Rico to recover any payments in contravention of bankruptcy or Puerto Rico law made prior to the commonwealth's bankruptcy," board executive director Natalie Jaresko said in a statement.
"If she had not concealed her use of Mildronate from the anti-doping authorities, members of her own support team and the doctors whom she consulted, but had sought advice, then the contravention would have been avoided," it said.
To prove to Burnham that he's not building a biological weapon (in contravention of the Geneva Conventions of 1928 and 2155), Lorca showed how the magic space spores could transport her to multiple locations across the galaxy in seconds.
In this case, the United States and West as a whole are attempting to send an unequivocal message to Moscow: Using military-grade nerve agents brazenly in a sovereign state is unacceptable and in contravention to all international norms.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Erdogan attributed his peace offering to the fact that Germany and Holland had supported his opposition to President Trump's decision to move the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
There was immediate shock and dismay that this display of sheer brute force by agents of a foreign government was allowed to take place on American soil — in direct contravention of US laws protecting freedom of assembly and protest.
Similarly, while the robot may be inflicting pain in contravention of the admonition that a robot "not injure a human being," ultimately the robot is doing so at the behest of a person and for the ultimate purpose of pleasure.
UNITED NATIONS/ATHENS (Reuters) - The United States will take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker sailing in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday.
AUSTRAC filed a civil case in August accusing the bank of several breaches of law including failing to identify, monitor and report money transfers over A$10,000 ($7,567), in contravention of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing Act.
He's making a listHe's checking it twiceHe's gonna find out who's naughty or niceSanta Claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 I found myself scrolling through the #GDPRmemes hashtag the other day.
Of the nearly 1.2m applications FEMA has received for money to repair damaged houses, it has rejected 60% for lack of title deeds or because the shacks in question were built on stolen land or in contravention of building codes.
Financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC filed a civil case on Thursday accusing the bank of several breaches of law including failing to identify, monitor and report money transfers over $10,000, in contravention of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing Act.
AUSTRAC filed a civil case in August accusing the bank of several breaches of law including failing to identify, monitor and report money transfers over A$10,000 ($7,566), in contravention of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing Act.
How could a seemingly tolerant, multicultural, open society like Australia's — which previously welcomed thousands of Vietnamese refugees, or "boat people," in the 1970s — consent to a system condemned by the United Nations as a contravention of human rights, approaching torture?
Ms. Mudallali also denounced what she described as the one-sidedness of Israel's complaint about Resolution 1701 violations, given what the Lebanese have called Israel's frequent breaches of Lebanon's sovereignty "by land, air and sea" in contravention of that resolution.
Australia's Privacy Act sets out a provision for a civil penalty of up to $3113,700,000 to be levied per contravention — and the national watchdog believes there were 311,074 local Facebook users in the cache of ~86M profiles lifted by Cambridge Analytica .
Indeed, to some extent the club's troubles now are relatively superficial, compared with, say, the transfer ban it was handed for recruiting minors in contravention of FIFA's rules or the scandal over Neymar's transfer that eventually sent Rosell to jail.
The organization officially formed a for-profit arm owned by a non-profit parent corporation in 2019, and it accepted $1 billion in investment from Microsoft along with the formation a wide-ranging partnership, seemingly in contravention of its founding principles.
The Senate Defense Appropriations Amendment singles out ZTE for its misbehavior, citing ZTE as a national security threat proposing higher penalties and elevated trade sanctions against ZTE in contravention of President Trump's proposals to lift the bans imposed against the company.
The bill had been so contentious that the nation's attorney general, who described it as unconstitutional and in contravention of international law, said he would not defend it in the high court, which seemed in any case likely to nullify it.
Patrick Mouratoglou admitted gesturing to Williams from the stands during her match with Japan's Naomi Osaka — in contravention of U.S. Open and other grand slam tournament rules — but the American was left incensed at the umpire's strict interpretation of the rule.
Open internet advocates argue that zero-rating strikes at the heart of net neutrality, because it gives telecom providers the power to "pick winners and losers" online, in direct contravention of FCC rules prohibiting companies from discriminating against certain types of content.
Having gotten boatloads of dark money -- $378 million in revenue in 2017 alone -- the NRA has decided that facilitating massive and opaque contributions to politicians, in contravention of the spirit of campaign finance laws, was not enough for a full-sized swamp.
The Australian government, citing a 2015 United Nations conference at which Jay was a speaker, put that figure as high as $3 trillion, of which 90 percent was "illegal" or in contravention of laws regulating gambling in which the bet was placed.
Pablo Longueira, who was a presidential candidate in Chile's 2013 election, is accused by prosecutors of receiving close to $1 million from specialty mining company SQM from 2009 to 2013, then hiding the donations through falsified receipts in contravention of Chilean law.
It soon spread across the globe, to a discreet hotel conference room in Islamabad, Pakistan (past productions have been by invitation only due to the play's contravention of cultural and sexual norms) to Brussels, where nine female members of the European Parliament performed.
This week they said they would target online lenders that have made loans to homebuyers to cover their down-payments; these loans have, in theory, allowed speculators to buy homes entirely with borrowed cash, in contravention of the minimum down-payment requirements.
Mkhwebane supported a policy change to house refugees in processing camps pending a decision on their status, which would have been in contravention of the constitution and an international refugee convention, according to the official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
TechCrunch understands the NDA relates to standard confidentiality provisions regarding deletion certifications and other commitments made by Kogan to Facebook not to misuse user data — after the company learned he had user passed data to SCL in contravention of its developer terms.
"The violence is often so serious and causes so much social unrest that it can be considered in contravention of social order," the Utrecht District Court ruled, naming the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Holland and the international organization to which it belongs.
Ignoring questions around the morality of keeping these properties out of the long-term rental market during the sort of housing crisis that London is going through, the majority of these lets are also likely to be in contravention to local housing law.
"The court is unaware," Judge Yeakel wrote, "of any other medical context that requires a doctor — in contravention of the doctor's medical judgment and the best interest of the patient — to conduct a medical procedure that delivers no benefit to the woman."
But aliens who enter the United States unlawfully through the southern border in contravention of this proclamation will be ineligible to be granted asylum under the regulation promulgated by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security that became effective earlier today.
While Mr. Gelernt and his colleagues have opposed the order, saying that it violates due process rights and discriminates against Muslims in contravention of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, they have not yet had the opportunity to make those arguments in court.
All these measures would necessitate greater borrowing, and given that both these populist parties have provided little details on the financing plans for these new programs, their introduction will very likely place the government in contravention of both domestic and European fiscal rules.
One of the networks — which Avaaz calls Unidad ​Nacional Española (after the most popular page in the network) — was apparently created and coordinated by an individual called ​Javier Ramón Capdevila Grau, who had multiple personal Facebook accounts (also) in contravention of Facebook's community standards.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, which conducted a fourth nuclear test in January in contravention of U.N. Security Council resolutions, can learn from a deal struck between Iran and world powers to freeze its nuclear program, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
"Corbyn's office, for which he must take full responsibility, consistently attempted to weaken and sabotage the Labour remain campaign, in contravention of the party's official position," Labour MP Phil Wilson wrote in an op-ed after the referendum in which he called for Corbyn's resignation.
The new chief of staff will work for a President who has been accused, effectively by his own Justice Department, of directing and cooperating in the commission of a crime -- in payoffs to women who accused him of affairs, in contravention of campaign finance laws.
Mueller appears to be sending a message to other witnesses that full disclosure will be rewarded while attempts to thwart him -- for example, by former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whom he has accused of lying in contravention of a cooperation agreement, will be severely punished.
The parliament is also calling for "evidence and legally binding commitments" to ensure that data collection under FISA Section 702 is not "indiscriminate and access is not conducted on a generalised basis (bulk collection)" — which would be in contravention of the EU's Charter on Fundamental Rights.
Tensions in the Middle East remained in focus as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions.
Tensions in the Middle East remained in focus as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the country would take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker sailing in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions.
"He is due to be executed on Thursday 4 January in direct contravention of international standards on the use of the death penalty", said Asma Jahangir, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, and Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Because Eritreans are prevented from legally accessing the Ethiopian labor market — in contravention of the right-to-work enshrined in the 1951 Geneva Convention — any skills and capital they acquire through such programs cannot be put to full use, the report said, causing frustration and hopelessness.
If it sides with the Philippines and then China begins building on the Scarborough Shoal—which both countries claim and which China has occupied since 2012 in contravention, according to the Philippines, of an American-brokered agreement—no Filipino president can simply acquiesce, especially a tough guy.
It comes as no surprise that at the last minute, when the counting showed the "no" vote was threatening the thin lead of the pro-Erdogan "Yes" vote, electoral authorities stepped in to announce they would allow unsealed ballots to be counted, in contravention to the rules.
"If hospitals are knowingly using insecure XP machines and devices to hold and otherwise process patient data they may well be in serious contravention of their obligations," Jon Baines, Chair of the National Association of Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officers (NADPO), wrote in an email.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said in a statement on Monday that Gui's detention was a "very serious matter" and that China's "brutal" intervention in Sweden's attempts to assist Gui, who Chinese authorities had said had been freed, represented a contravention of international rules on consular support.
I mostly agreed with the opinion invective, because what was being proposed, if enacted, would be in defiance of the White House's own Africa policy, of U.S. national security interests in preempting threats to the U.S. homeland and in contravention of commitments to our NATO allies.
In contravention of its normal practice, the university did not publish her 226-page thesis, entitled "The changing social structure and functions of the family: The case of children's homes in Zimbabwe", until this week, when it was released on its website (ir.uz.ac.zw/handle/10646/3463).
Trump's campaign may be discounting the furor, but it is undeniable that his comments on Wednesday -- in which he also appeared to open the way to recognizing Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in contravention of current US policy -- offered an opening for the Clinton campaign.
The U.S. says China's purchase is in contravention of sanctions it has placed on Russia over its actions in Ukraine and its interference in the 2016 presidential election — but China has not joined in the sanctions imposed on Moscow by the U.S. and its Western allies since 2014.
Critics among civilian politicians, however, fear that the cadets are being used to convince Thais to vote in favor of the military-backed charter, in contravention of rules issued in May that bars anyone from campaigning for either side in the run up to the referendum on Aug. 7.
A study published by the Federal Reserve looked at the 2014 Detroit bankruptcy — which reduced the debt owed to bondholders in contravention to bankruptcy law in order to protect retirees — and discerned a contagion effect that reached the municipalities with the worst credit ratings, like Illinois or Chicago.
Barr's action, however, appears to be in direct contravention of the letter and spirit of the special counsel regulations -- that is, to have a special counsel who is not a political appointee and who is independent of the Department of Justice make the decision whether to charge a crime.
But in a deeper sense, it also placed him in direct contravention of the new default societal position that has seen the testimony of women who allege assault and discrimination taken at face value, and resulted in the ostracizing of powerful men in the media, politics, business and entertainment.
He is so pro-life that he was in favor of granting a whole new level of personhood to Hobby Lobby, a not-person corporation that Gorsuch deemed capable of having religious beliefs (beliefs that he saw fit to impose on a woman's body and choices in contravention of existing law).
In June, President Trump tweeted that undocumented immigrants should be sent home "immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases"— a direct contravention, legal scholars pointed out, of repeated Supreme Court rulings saying that the amendment's guarantee of due process applies to all people in the United States, whatever their status.
But President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, in contravention of longstanding American policy, followed by United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley's threat to cut off aid to Palestinian refugees, were seen by the right-wingers as an opening to end any pretense of supporting the two-state idea.
In a recent article in Nautilus, the writer and M.I.T. physicist Alan Lightman recalled an occasion at Caltech in the early 1970s when Richard Feynman worked out an equation on Lightman's blackboard that described how black holes could emit heat and radiation, in contravention to everything that physicists then thought.
Because the drugs most commonly used at these events—usually cocaine and MDMA, but also GHB, K, and others—are illegal, it can seem like the only legal response organizers can make is to preach zero tolerance, providing amnesty boxes, conducting exhaustive searches, and charging those found in contravention of the law.
Another fine for Uber's historical playbook: The ride-hailing giant has agreed to pay around $2.6 million (€20153 million) to settle charges in the Netherlands related to violations of local taxi law, dating back to when it was operating a peer-to-peer ride-hailing service in contravention of local transport laws.
But it is Italy's deficit to GDP ratio that has provoked some of the greatest consternation, among both European policymakers and investors, and the Commission said that without changes to government policy the deficit to GDP ratio limit of 3% could also be exceeded by 2020, in contravention of euro zone rules.
"The harsh sentence imposed on Christensen creates a dangerous precedent, and effectively criminalizes the right to freedom of religion or belief for Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia – in contravention of the State's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
Last week, Mueller made a case that Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was negotiating to build a Trump Tower in Moscow into June 2016 -- long after it was clear that his boss would win the GOP nomination and in contravention of the President's statements that he had no business ties with Russia.
And many liberal Zionists share the movement's complaints about the brutality and self-defeating nature of Israel's nearly 50-year occupation, even if they believe B.D.S. language and tactics to be counterproductive to the goal of a peaceful, two-state solution — to say nothing of the movement's contravention of principles of free expression.
North Korea has also inflamed the situation, ramping up the number of missile tests it has carried out in recent months – in direct contravention of sanctions imposed on them by the UN. But despite all this military action, Han believes that Trump is to blame for the current situation on the Korean Peninsula.
According to the board of regents' summary of a report prepared by Pepper Hamilton, football staff members "affirmatively chose not to report sexual violence and dating violence to an appropriate administrator outside of athletics" — a direct contravention of guidelines associated with Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education.
Legitimate payments for travel allowances are regularly abused — a way to funnel money to underage players in contravention of the rules — and poaching the best prospects from rival clubs is common, so much so that Huddersfield, promoted to the Premier League this season, recently scrapped its youth programs for players under 16.
Twice this season, Eleven has broadcast a game from La Liga on a Saturday afternoon, in direct contravention of rules laid down by Britain's soccer authorities — and legitimized by the statutes of UEFA, European soccer's governing body — that no games can be shown on television from 2:45 to 153:15 p.m.
But the expectation that conditions under Mr Trump will be different is already leading to new plans for building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as to a new bill which will legalise the status of settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land in contravention of Israeli (rather than international) law.
The suit alleges that Otto founder Anthony Levandowski took the information while employed at Waymo when it was still Google's self-driving car project, and now Waymo has formally filed for an injunction against Uber's use of the tech it says the ride-hailing company acquired in contravention of the terms of Levandowski's employment.
" Asked before the meeting for a guarantee that the commission would not discuss Bentley's job performance, in contravention of state law, the commission's executive director, Thomas Albritton, told CNN in an email, "I don't really understand your question, but what I can tell you is that we will not violate Alabama's Open Meetings Act.
It is no coincidence that the day after the Great August Pivot, one of his two—two—campaign chairs (the corrupt one, not the white nationalist one) resigned amid a torrent of news stories about how he helped oligarchs plunder poor Ukrainians, in contravention of of U.S. interests, and probably federal law as well.
"Regardless of whether or not this is a good deal for Afghanistan, approving a contract in apparent contravention of the minerals law would undermine the government's declarations that it is bringing the rule of law to the sector," said Mr. Carter, the Afghanistan campaign leader at Global Witness, an organization focused on mining and conflict.
"We therefore ask that you convene hearings to address the facts underlying the whistleblower's report, the Administration's refusal to provide that report to Congress in contravention of the law, and any legal advice provided by the Department of Justice or the White House Counsel on these matters," the Judiciary Committee Democrats wrote in their letter.
Jack Jenkins at Religion News Service reports that a number of high-profile UMC scholars and theologians are troubled by the logic that politicians are not to blame for carrying out an administration's policies, or that following the orders of a political or military superior is sufficient to justify behavior that is in contravention of church law. Rev.
As if to highlight the confusion in the EU's position, two sources in Brussels told Reuters that Germany was urging the EU to add up to four more Russian nationals and companies to the bloc's own sanctions blacklist, after evidence emerged that gas turbines built by Germany's Siemens had been delivered to Crimea in contravention of sanctions.
"UN human rights experts are gravely concerned by information they have received suggesting that, in contravention of fundamental international human rights standards, a WhatsApp account belonging to the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2018 deployed digital spyware enabling surveillance of The Washington Post owner and Amazon CEO, Jeffery Bezos," a UN statement said.
But it wasn't the only evidence showing that Hubbard's friends and associates warned him not to do the things that led to him being indicted on 23 felony counts by a grand jury, including accepting about $420,000 a year in consulting contracts from a variety of companies that employed lobbyists—in direct contravention of ethics laws that Hubbard passed in 2010.
In 2014, The New York Times published an investigation into the plight of construction workers at the Abu Dhabi campus, documenting how many had been charged steep recruitment fees to get their jobs, how few were being paid what they had been promised, and how some lived in miserable conditions, all in contravention of standards N.Y.U. had set for the project.
"These expenditures were made in contravention of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016, which prohibits the use of any funds to assist in the transfer of any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay to the United States as well as the use of any funds to prepare any facility in the United States to house any Guantanamo detainee," they wrote.
"This would, if implemented, constitute a serious breach of international law," the German Foreign Ministry said on Friday on Twitter here "France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom will continue to call on all parties to refrain from actions in contravention of international law which would imperil the viability of a two-state solution, based on the 1967 lines, and make it harder to achieve a just and lasting peace," the ministry's statement said.
The manuscript above was a diary written, in contravention of Navy rules, by a sailor aboard the transport ship Henry R. Mallory during World War I. (He cunningly concealed it in a little brass nut that may have been part of the ship's pipe system.) The diary, on a single scrolling sheet of paper, chronicles meetings with enemy submarines, ones that fire at the Mallory and ones that the Mallory fires upon; ones that sink, and ones that get away.
Critics brought it up when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2007 in contravention of Bush administration policy, and again in 2015 when Tom Cotton and other Senate Republicans wrote directly to Iran's leaders in an attempt to scuttle the country's nuclear deal with the US. Many legal observers don't take the Logan Act particularly seriously, however, given that it seems to rather clearly violate the First Amendment and would stand a good chance of being struck down should it even actually lead to a prosecution, according to Goldsmith and other legal observers like UT Austin's Steve Vladeck.

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