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We take strict action against sellers in case they are found to be selling any product in contravention with applicable laws, including listing of unsafe or non-compliant products, as customer safety is a top priority. – Tata Sons	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Justice Ginsburg was a consistent voice for procedural integrity at Supreme Court, justice Ginsburg would have been up in arms over Supreme Court allowing such a restrictive law to go into effect in direct contravention of longstanding precedent and while Supreme Court has a pending merits case before Supreme Court implicating the same core issues. – Amanda Tyler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Andrew McCabe's clearly targeting the person who's filed this complaint that affects Andrew McCabe seriously and is kind of laying the marker down that Andrew McCabe wants this person's identity and Andrew McCabe wants to be able to follow-up on this. So absolutely a total contravention of all the protections for whistleblowers, so you have to ask, was this some sort of a message to all of those folks and indeed a message to all people serving in the government that if they step forward with complaints, they can expect the President to come after them ? – Andrew McCabe	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law. – Jeremy Hunt	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If the American administration decided to also impose a regime of sanctions on investments in Cuba, in contravention of what has been decided for several years now by our American allies, we would react. Europe would also react and is ready to also impose sanctions at our end. – Le Maire	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law. – Van Der Klaauw	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The jamming of the cellular signal was an unprecedented contravention of media freedom. All indications are that the jamming of the signal was illegal. – The DA	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a very blatant land grab and it is in direct contravention to the Minsk Agreement that they signed up to. – John Kerry	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

We take strict action against sellers in case they are found to be selling any product in contravention with applicable laws, including listing of unsafe or non-compliant products, as customer safety is a top priority.

– Tata Sons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Justice Ginsburg was a consistent voice for procedural integrity at Supreme Court, justice Ginsburg would have been up in arms over Supreme Court allowing such a restrictive law to go into effect in direct contravention of longstanding precedent and while Supreme Court has a pending merits case before Supreme Court implicating the same core issues.

– Amanda Tyler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Andrew McCabe's clearly targeting the person who's filed this complaint that affects Andrew McCabe seriously and is kind of laying the marker down that Andrew McCabe wants this person's identity and Andrew McCabe wants to be able to follow-up on this. So absolutely a total contravention of all the protections for whistleblowers, so you have to ask, was this some sort of a message to all of those folks and indeed a message to all people serving in the government that if they step forward with complaints, they can expect the President to come after them ?

– Andrew McCabe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law.

– Jeremy Hunt

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If the American administration decided to also impose a regime of sanctions on investments in Cuba, in contravention of what has been decided for several years now by our American allies, we would react. Europe would also react and is ready to also impose sanctions at our end.

– Le Maire

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law.

– Van Der Klaauw

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The jamming of the cellular signal was an unprecedented contravention of media freedom. All indications are that the jamming of the signal was illegal.

– The DA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a very blatant land grab and it is in direct contravention to the Minsk Agreement that they signed up to.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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