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What does contravene mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To act contrary to an order, or fail to conform to a regulation.
  2. (transitive) To deny the truth of something.
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These are concrete factual matters and they wish to ensure that their intended activity does not contravene valid law.
The Council decided that the commercial was neutral and not in poor taste, and did not contravene the CAB's Code of Ethics.
The endeavour is to bring those who contravene international law to justice, whether for genocide, possessing illegal weapons or whatever.
Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
If, on the other hand, members of organisations do engage in acts which contravene the criminal law then the law is able to deal with them.
Some of the other matters about exaggeration, invention of untrue stories and so forth, may arguably contravene the section.

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