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This compromise, held by many critics to be in contravention of the terms in the Maastricht Treaty for establishing the single currency, was described in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "a shadow over monetary union" and in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt as horse-trading that would encourage the Euroskeptics in Germany.
The breaches of confidentiality and testing for HIV without informed consent reported by participants are in contravention of international principles of medical ethics [44], and are also breaches of the Nigerian physician code of conduct [41].
contravention of any other provision of the permit.
The British press has been dominated for several days by the crisis threatening Foreign Secretary Robin Cook over claims the British Foreign Office secretly encouraged a private company to sell arms to help overthrow the military junta in Sierra Leone, in contravention of U.N. sanctions against that west African nation.
It also raised the potential problems of unreasonable discrimination that such contracts might cause, in contravention of 39