Sentence examples for and contending with a from inspiring English sources

When Siglufjordur, a small mountain town in northern Iceland, was hit by a series of storms last summer, construction workers clearing a roadway soon found themselves dodging mudslides and contending with a flooded river.

He could also benefit from what some Republicans see as a modest vein of Bush nostalgia, marked by a video shown at the Republican National Convention about his father, who is 88 and contending with a form of Parkinson's disease and declining health.

But few disagree that the Afghan security forces have improved significantly, despite absorbing thousands of combat deaths this year and contending with a desertion rate so high that a quarter to a fifth of the 352,000 soldiers and police officers must be replaced each year.

But now, in her 40's and back home in Cleveland, facing her siblings' anger for the wreckage she left behind and contending with a staggeringly self-absorbed teenage daughter of her own, Jenny has a story that feels more like a rap sheet.

Obama's health care legislation will get between you and your doctor, force you to pay higher taxes and, while failing to lengthen your life, compel you to spend much, much more of it filling out forms, standing in lines and contending with a new bureaucracy that will make the U.S. Postal Service seem a very model of efficiency.

For arrogant Harrison Badish Matt Waltonn), that means learning to walk in heels, accepting the responsibility of being a caretaker and contending with a diagnosis of Stage 1 uterine cancer.

But with Brighton on a run of one win in nine games and contending with an injury-hit squad, Crofts welcomed a piece of fortune.

These days, Ms. Barrett says, she occasionally gets dizzy spells and contends with a partial loss of hearing in one ear.

Along the way, he alternately befriended and did battle with the native peoples he called "Indians," was twice shipwrecked and contended with a rogue's gallery of Spanish rebels and mutineers.

As he moves away from his surrogate mother (if panic-dialing her often) and contends with a patriarchal problem (the plot thickens, slightly), Tim travels a classic path of enlightenment that runs parallel with our own understanding of him.

Her exertions and the image of a threshold strongly recalled "Errand Into the Maze," Martha Graham's often revived work of 1947 about a questing woman who ventures into a labyrinth and contends with a beast akin to the mythological monster known as the Minotaur.