Sentence examples similar to I'm contending with from inspiring English sources

I am contending with a variety of reactions, and consequently with a single brush on the touch pad I flee upward into the atmosphere and at once have in my sights the physical planet, submarine wrinkles and all — have the option, if so moved, to go anywhere.

I was contending with late season tourists on beach bikes and spandex covered cyclists for 24 inches of pavement.

The particular issues that it is contending with at present are: energy, welfare reform, arms control, tax reform, among others.

By the mid-19th century, though, it was contending with Broadway to be the city's premier entertainment district.

But it's a drop in the bucket compared with other problems it's contending with.

Did it frighten her? "I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years".

Lately I've been contending with what feels like two different sides of my practice.

At the time, I would have insisted that my rituals of self-abuse – drinking, pills, the impulse to put my body in danger in ways I now know were deliberate – were merely efforts to escape; that I was contending, however clumsily, with the overwhelming despair at the absence of God.

Halliburton, meanwhile, is contending with two new scandals.

It has been contending with competition from Japan.

She and her family were contending with more pressing problems.