Sentence examples for always contending from inspiring English sources

Foremost, Oliver is aware of his good fortune in winding up with a team that is always contending for a World Series title, though he is able to brandish a World Series ring of his own, as a member of the 1990 Reds. "I feel grateful to be here," he said.

We aren't allowed for a moment to miss the point: a biographer makes a fiction out of the facts of a life; he deals in records that may or may not be reliable; and he's always contending with the Self or Selves that his subject invented in the process of living.

Scheider said that they were "always contending with tides, surf and winds jellyfish, sharks, waterspouts and hurricane warnings".

She has always contended that the incident was an accident.

Museum officials had always contended that Margarita Aguilar, the former director, was dismissed for poor performance.

He has always contended that this was the way for his side to win.

He has always contended he was not guilty of any terrorism charges.

"The defendants always contended that this was a lawsuit that lacked merit," Mr. Jacobson said.

But he has always contended that there was no plan, no grand design.

It demonstrated what Mr. Bloomberg has always contended: that he is a devoted delegator.

Despite DNA evidence to the contrary, she has always contended that the tiger was not hers.