Reagan, he said, had been "blessed by an opposition party that has largely surrendered the basic contention of its politics -- namely that of challenging the maldistribution of power between the haves and the have-nots".
The basic contention of Russell's theory of descriptions is that a proposition containing a definite description is not to be regarded as an assertion about an object of which that description is a name but rather as an existentially quantified assertion that a certain (rather complex) property has an instance.
His basic contention that the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship depends on there being "no daylight" and "no surprises" between the two nations does not stand up to scrutiny.
All in all, it's enough to support the basic contention that civic life -- that realm of collective and often altruistic endeavor that belongs neither to the market nor to the state -- is indeed weaker now, and even to justify a certain nostalgia for the 1950's.
The approach is known broadly as culturally sensitive care, and its basic contention is that a strictly Western view is inadequate to the task of addressing the needs of patients and their families in the modern world.
Their basic contention was that Mr. Jones had taken a bloody pair of orange pants to a dry cleaner the day after the killing.
But because we've been reminded so often of those two basic contentions about play, I'd like to offer five other propositions on the subject that seem less obvious, or at least less frequently discussed.
The proposed W-HCF (WAVE-based Hybrid Coordination Function) protocol leverages controlled access capabilities on top of the basic contention-based access of the IEEE 802.11p; it exploits vehicles' position information and coordination among WAVE providers in order to improve performances of delay-constrained and loss-sensitive non-safety applications.
Adopt the most open interpretation of this statement from his letter, "my basic contention is that something that has been found to be safe in a reliable jurisdiction shouldn't need to be tested again here".
"My basic contention is it probably is".
Their basic contentions were that short-period changes of the money supply are, in fact, followed (after a varying interval) by changes in money income and that the velocity of circulation, though it fluctuates to some extent with the money supply, tends to be fairly stable, especially over long periods.
