Example sentences of "which was contrary to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice , according to such critics , has been either to increase taxes to cover the public spending for the services — which was contrary to the government 's tax-cutting policies — or to reduce the scale of state provision of welfare . |
| 2 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |
| 3 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 4 | Despite the passing of the Children Act 1989 , the inherent jurisdiction of the court could still be invoked in such a case to prevent an abortion which was contrary to the interests of the minor . |
| 5 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 6 | Then the Dutch representative in his turn alleged that he was being asked to accept a position implying mere equality with that of the duke of Savoy , which was contrary to his instructions : he therefore also refused to attend . |