Contravene used in a sentence

Contravene in a sentence as a verb

They are not there to support the public's will but to contravene it by paying for the opposite.

The court notices that your inaction caused you to contravene a court order, and the court then holds you in contempt.

I just fumble every time I try to use it because it seems to contravene conventions.

Anyway the way this machine was being operated would contravene the new rules, and for good reason.

Agreed ... bringing that into the workplace would probably contravene a bunch of laws as well as HR regulations.

Leaving them exposed to wild high-value money transfers should, and probably does, contravene the due care standard.

Any example I come up with of something that blows up a C++ program is going to contravene some best practice somewhere.

Yes, Wikimedia is willing to spend money to defend against completely bogus copyright claims that contravene all law and precedent.

The current behaviour even appears to contravene Apple's own iOS Human Interface Guidelines:"Give people a logical path to follow.