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    1. 15:3-9 Why do you all also contravene the commandment of God by your tradition because God commanded saying: “Honour your father and mother” and: “He who curses father or mother let him die the death”? Instead you say: Whoever shall say to his father or his mother: “By whatever you might be profited by me it is a gift (for God)” and so he does not honour his father or his mother so he shall be free so you have made the commands of God void by your tradition you hypocrites; Isaiah did properly prophesy about you saying: “These people come close to Me with their mouth and honour Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me; so in vain they worship Me teaching the commandments of men as doctrine”


    2. Drawing a little closer to the Master, he said, "But, Teacher, I should like you to tell me just who is my neighbor?" The lawyer asked this question hoping to entrap Jesus into making some statement that would contravene the Jewish law which defined one's neighbor as "the children of one's people


    3. contravene what the subconscious gives us—but we certainly tend to


    4. So, would he (cpth) then contravene the saying of Al’lah by inviting his companions to take Satan as a teacher?! God forbid! It is absolutely far from him


    5. Nay! Many are born who would contravene Dharma by operating too far outside the leanings of their inherent self-nature


    6. This either meant that some Jew messed up in accounting (not very likely) or that God interjected Himself onto the stage of history to contravene the normal operations of natural law for the accomplishment of His purposes


    7. Such attitudes, behaviours and speech regarding the judgment and discrimination of others contravene the human natural law of justice, respect and dignity relating to human diversity


    8. All the special influences of Eastern and Western thought were vigorously at work from the very beginning of the gospel to contravene the chief peculiarity of the Christian Revelation,—its declaration that immortality is the gift of God, through the Incarnation, to regenerate men alone


    9. "I have been under a mistake all this time," answered Don Quixote, "for in truth I thought it was a castle, and not a bad one; but since it appears that it is not a castle but an inn, all that can be done now is that you should excuse the payment, for I cannot contravene the rule of knights-errant, of whom I know as a fact (and up to the present I have read nothing to the contrary) that they never paid for lodging or anything else in the inn where they might be; for any hospitality that might be offered them is their due by law and right in return for the insufferable toil they endure in seeking adventures by night and by day, in summer and in winter, on foot and on horseback, in hunger and thirst, cold and heat, exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the hardships of earth


    10. She knew that it was all sentiment, all baseless impressibility, which had caused her to read the scene as her own condemnation; nevertheless she could not get over it; she could not contravene in her own defenceless person all those untoward omens

    11. It would have been to contravene these arrangements if Rosamond had consented to go away to Stone Court or elsewhere, as her parents wished her to do, especially since Mr


    12. The Hospital was to be reserved for fever in all its forms; Lydgate was to be chief medical superintendent, that he might have free authority to pursue all comparative investigations which his studies, particularly in Paris, had shown him the importance of, the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate's ultimate decisions; and the general management was to be lodged exclusively in the hands of five directors


    13. Even in the cases where the specific lien proves of real advantage, this benefit is realized under conditions which contravene the very meaning of fixed-value investment


    14. Investment-trust financing, by its very nature, was compelled to contravene these three established criteria of reputable stock flotations


    15. In calling this “speculation,” we contravene most authoritative views


    16. And this jealousy must rise to an extreme height, when the course of measures adopted, whether they have relation to the management or the protection of such interests, wholly contravene the opinions and the practical experience of the persons immediately concerned in them


    1. But apparently this standard method contravened a law about sending nanos to alien worlds


    2. Even the position of the compound was marked; he wondered if it could have simply been programmed in to navigate automatically, but perhaps that contravened some rule of the Temporal Directive


    3. Whether you are able to appreciate this or not, while General Walker’s decision to put female aviators in the frontlines was made out of dire necessity and could still be justified, it still contravened congressional rules about the use of women in direct ground combat


    4. I received a letter from the planners to say that my hut had contravened regulations and I needed to redo the green in a Regent Green no other option allowed


    5. How would they be able to transmit it to Syria since their financial affairs would be subject to close inspection by the authorities and anyone who contravened the laws would face capital punishment?


    6. In doing this she contravened a 35 year-old federal prohibition


    7. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, "I have now come to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or inn is beyond a doubt enchanted, because those who have so atrociously diverted themselves with thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings of another world? and I hold this confirmed by having noticed that when I was by the wall of the yard witnessing the acts of thy sad tragedy, it was out of my power to mount upon it, nor could I even dismount from Rocinante, because they no doubt had me enchanted; for I swear to thee by the faith of what I am that if I had been able to climb up or dismount, I would have avenged thee in such a way that those braggart thieves would have remembered their freak for ever, even though in so doing I knew that I contravened the laws of chivalry, which, as I have often told thee, do not permit a knight to lay hands on him who is not one, save in case of urgent and great necessity in defence of his own life and person


    8. The Vela satellites were developed by the USA to monitor Earth for nuclear tests that contravened the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty


    9. I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content,” he added, with emphasis, “to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains—my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed—made useless


    10. The law of supply and demand cannot be contravened by laws artificially restricting marketing methods

    1. Thailand does not accept the French-made and Cambodian-peddled map over ''Phra Viharn'' because it contravenes the Franco-Siamese agreement of 1904, which stipulated that the map was to be demarcated along a watershed line separating the two countries


    2. I wonder, how would Khaled Ibn Al-Waleed say “In the Name of God” and then act in a way that contravenes this by drinking poison, as has been claimed? Is such an act part of God’s Statute?


    3. Surely this looks like a special overruling influence; for it contravenes the natural method of human thought


    4. The philosophy of investment in growth stocks parallels in part and in part contravenes the margin-of-safety principle


    1. With respect to the officers and crew…if the facts stated by Captain Waddell are true, there is clearly no case for any persecution on the ground of piracy in the courts of this country, and we presume that her Majesty’s government is not in possession of any evidence which could be produced before any court or magistrate for the purpose of contravening the statement or showing that the crime of piracy has, in fact, been committed…With respect to any persons on the Shenandoah who cannot immediately be proceeded against and


    2. with the police - or the church - or the local council - it's bound it be contravening


    3. Severe penalties were imposed on everyone who was caught contravening the regulations and attempting to smuggle gold or money out of the Turkish state, thereby attempting to stop the financial crash and strengthen the economy


    4. incapable of contravening Kali’s mandate


    5. Two male orderlies agreed to bring us Moni from refrigeration, contravening regulations


    6. Jackson)—no man is better informed on this subject—would he venture his property on the ocean in a trade contravening those orders? I would ask him further, would Brown and Ives, merchants, as remarkable for their prudence as for their enterprise, and for their capital as either; would they send their vessels to the Continent of Europe? I believe their opinion would corroborate the opinion of Mr


    7. But, sir, the right to carry in our own ships the produce of our own country to any quarter, not thereby violating the laws of nations, or contravening legitimate municipal regulations, is one which I never will yield; for, sir, in doing so, we paralyze the industry of our citizens; we give a fatal blow to the best interests of our country


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    Synonyms for "contravene"

    contradict contravene negate conflict infringe run afoul transgress infract clash oppose interpose hinder defy interfere

    "contravene" definitions

    go against, as of rules and laws


    deny the truth of