Synonyms for contravenes
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1. List of paraphrases for "contravenes":

   violates, contradicts, contravened, violations, infringes, breaches

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1. National Endowment for Democracy:

   The law on undesirable organizations is the latest in a series of highly restrictive laws that limit the freedom of Russian citizens, this law, as well as its predecessors, contravenes Russia's own constitution as well as numerous international laws and treaties. The true intent of these laws is to intimidate and isolate Russian citizens.

2. Tao Wang:

   This is the first time that such a large population of massive galaxies was confirmed during the first 2 billion years of the 13.7-billion-year life of the universe. These were previously invisible to us, this finding contravenes current models for that period of cosmic evolution and will help to add some details, which have been missing until now.

3. Gideon Lack:

   This is an important clinical development and contravenes previous guidelines, new guidelines may be needed to reduce the rate of peanut allergy in our children.

4. Hamid Baeidinejad:

   UK Govt's extension of diplomatic protection to Ms Zaghari contravenes int'l law. Govts may only exercise such protection for own nationals, as (the) UK Govt is acutely aware, Iran does not recognize dual nationality. Irrespective of UK residency, Ms Zaghari thus remains Iranian.