Sentence examples for basis of contention from inspiring English sources

Most of the MAC schemes allocate slots on the basis of contention as depicted in Table 7.

The state' s attorney general (who was supporting the Gore challenge) confirmed in oral argument here that never before the present election had a manual recount been conducted on the basis of the contention that "undervotes" should have been examined to determine voter intent.

The basis of the contention is that the food products indicated by 'the meat inspection act do not include a food product bearing the trade-name 'oleomargarine,' prescribed by a special revenue law to be used in the sale thereof, and that statutory name is not 'false or deceptive' when so used.' And for the contention the company relies on Homer v. Collector, 1 Wall.

Issues of collaborator quality and outputs of team members have been a basis for contention for years, and this evidence-based system removed any basis for argument.

It is the fact that priests do not have their own children that is the basis of the lawyers' contention that a priest's family ought to be defined especially expansively.

The basis of the first contention is that the statute unduly and arbitrarily interferes with the liberty of two adult persons to make a contract of employment for themselves.

With this unique priority is denoted for allocating of slots on the priority-basis during contention for accessing channel.

This being the basis of all the contentions, the case comes to the single issue whether the enforcement of that provision, because of its political character, is exclusively committed to Congress, or is judicial in its character.

The same contention was the basis of the petitions for certiorari.

The District Court rejected this contention on the basis of the right of ownership possessed by C.A.V. against Farr, Whitlock prior to payment for the sugar.

Substantially abandoning contention on the basis of the rights of Englishmen, the declaration put forth the more fundamental doctrines of natural rights and of government under social contract.