CONTRAVENING

Definition: CONTRAVENING

CONTRAVENING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Contravene

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: CONTRAVENING

Economic History

Lebanon

Meanwhile, on the political front, Prime Minister Rashid Karami, head of a government of national unit set up after the failed peace efforts of 1984, was assassinated on June 1, 1987. President Gemayel's term of office expired in September 1988. Before stepping down, he appointed another Maronite Christian, Lebanese Armed Forces Commanding General Michel 'Awn, as acting Prime Minister, contravening Lebanon's unwritten "National Pact," which required the Prime Minister to be Sunni Muslim. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

The lack of qualified magistrates, other court officials, and private attorneys has resulted in a serious backlog of criminal cases, which often translated into delays of up to 1 year or more between arrest and trial, contravening constitutional provisions for the right to a speedy trial. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

The Federal Government negotiated interim fishing agreements with 30 of the 34 native communities in Atlantic Canada, but the Burnt Church First Nation in New Brunswick and 3 other groups in Nova Scotia have refused to sign the interim agreements and have been accused of contravening federal regulations by fishing for lobster out-of-season. (references)

Worker Rights

Iran

This provision has been criticized frequently by the International Labor Organization (ILO) as contravening ILO Convention 29 on forced labor. (references)

Tanzania

The Registrar can suspend a trade union for contravening the law or the union's own rules, suspend a union for 6 months on grounds of public order or security, and invalidate the union's international trade union affiliation if certain internal union procedures are not followed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

违反 (Contravene, Contravened, infringement, transgression). (various references)

French

pratique contraire � l'éthique sportive (practice contravening sport ethics). (various references)

German

verstoßend. (various references)

Pig Latin

ontraveningcay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: covenanting.

-2 letters: conventing, converting, entrancing, nonvintage, overacting, renovating.

-3 letters: cantering, cantoning, cartoning, caverning, cavorting, connivent, container, convening, cravening, crenation, ignorance, nervation, nonacting, nonnative, recanting, vectoring, vernation.

-4 letters: anointer, anoretic, argentic, averting, canoeing, catering, centring, coinvent, conative, conniver, contrive, covenant, covering, coveting, crannoge, creating, creation, enacting, encoring, gerontic, graviton, grievant, ignorant, innocent, innovate, inventor, invocate.