Sentence examples for and try to contend from inspiring English sources

"There are a lot of great individual basketball players that I would love to be alongside of and try to contend for an N.B.A. championship," James said then.

"There's a lot of great individual basketball players that I would love to be alongside of and try to contend for an N.B.A. championship," James said after the game.

Joey and Rachel try to contend with Ross' feelings about them being together and decide it would be best to remain friends.

That's the simple truth – and to try to contend otherwise is immoral, Representative Ryan.

As major cities try to contend with air pollution, reduce carbon emissions and water use, and counteract urban heat, there has been an increasing interest in the role biology might play.

The institutions also will try to contend that they were fooled – a tricky argument for a large and prolific investor.

In this paper and for all scenarios, we assume that a coexistence between nodes, belonging to different orientations, try to contend to the same time slot in the contention access period (CAP).

We evaluate the performance of the proposed dynamism via the numerical simulations assuming a fixed SNR value while variable number of nodes try to contend to the available time slot.

Mena, who was named the conference's Southern Division Coach of the Year in 2002, said the Vaqueros appear to have a foundation in place to try to contend for a possible playoff berth.

He was a nervous twenty-five-year-old migrant from Fujian Province who had learned the basics of the jianbing business and was trying to contend in the competitive business of breakfast crepes.

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