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What does contravenes mean?

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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contravene
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On this evidence, it appears the excision of oral health from national health policy, contravenes the international health charter on all counts.
So you think being forced to walk 20 yards to have a cigarette contravenes your human rights?
Deliberate poisoning on a grand scale, such as the use of poison gases in warfare is uncommon and contravenes international law.
This is a regime that contravenes every single principle or value anyone of our politics believes in.
To allow pure punishment in this way contravenes almost every principle which has been evolved for the protection of offenders.
What we want is not a change in the law but a declaration by the courts that the current law is illegal because it contravenes human rights under the European convention.

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