contravention of the law

The Act was passed in order that vehicles could be easily traced in the event of an accident or contravention of the law.

Johnson and Kompany fail on at least three of these counts and were therefore in clear contravention of the law.

In particular, Geest is accused of stripping trees along watercourses, in contravention of the law.

These states are hypocritically protecting their markets against mutual competition, in contravention of the law of the Union and the rulings of the courts.

The FBI conducted wiretaps in contravention of the law, and began to collect a file on Fly.

The Wine Committee (three to six members strong) was to be elected by all categories of membership, so as not to be in contravention of the law.

Chapter 10: "Topics about Wrongdoing" asserts: "Let wrongdoing be defined as doing harm willingly in contravention of the law."

The carriage of the passenger was in contravention of the law in the Congo which bans AN-24s from use as passenger aircraft.

Ethical Dilemma - A biased tribunal judge has deliberately fabricated legal findings and made reference to documents and events that don't exist in contravention of the law.

The Test was marred by controversy; Melbourne newspaper, The Age, alleged that the pitch had been watered during the course of the match, in contravention of the laws of cricket.

The police investigation into the leak concluded, on 19 December 2003, that Jäätteenmäki should be prosecuted for aiding or abetting Manninen in revealing state secrets in contravention of the law.

"Clearly the secret payments to Inkatha are against the public interest and probably also in contravention of the law," Mr. Dalling was quoted as saying by the South African Press Association.

Despite a warning to crew members from the Gestapo cell about contravention of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour, sexual activity continued as normal on a cruise.

In defiance of the law Dr. Henry Morgentaler began performing abortions at his clinic without approval of a Therapeutic Abortion Committee and in contravention of the law.

Thus, just as prohibition in the United States led to the speakeasy (an establishment in which alcohol was sold in contravention of the law), so too have smoking bans led to the smokeasy.

As the chief pastor of the Hungarian church, Pázmány used every means in his power, short of absolute contravention of the laws, to obstruct and weaken Protestantism, which had risen during the 16th century.

Fifty-three times, he raised the blade his mother had made for him and, in direct contravention of the laws of Rome, engaged in battle with the express intent of bringing a youth through the threshold to adulthood.

This was done in contravention of the law of Caliph Omar who forbade the construction of new synagogues as well as forbade the destruction of those that existed in the pre-Islamic period.

Hindus have alleged that the increase in the number of Christians in Odisha has been a result of exploitation of illiteracy and impoverishment by the missionaries in contravention of the law, instead of free will.

"There are also a significant number of instances, counted in the hundreds, in which we suggest that Justice Neville Owen should find there might have been a possible contravention of the law," said Wayne Martin, the lawyer leading the investigation.

While at Riverkeeper, Kennedy hired William Wegner, a falconry friend who had pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of smuggling bird eggs from Australia in contravention of the laws of Australia and the United States.

The Irish government have, in contravention of the law, nominated a person who not only has no experience of economic or financial affairs, but is furthermore a disgraced supreme court judge who was forced to resign before he was impeached by the Irish parliament.

A uniform asylum law would only be desirable if it was based on the most stringent national asylum law, like that of Denmark for example, and if there were consequences for contraventions of the law, like the tourist visa for illegal immigrants.

More human trials were conducted in Tanzania in 2000 even after the South African Medicines Control Council ruled that such trials would be unethical and in contravention of the law and refused permission for human trials in 1998.

Possibly they enjoyed theirs more than we enjoy ours, for who shall say that the beasts of the jungle do not better fulfill the purposes for which they are created than does man with his many excursions into strange fields and his contraventions of the laws of nature?