Sentence examples for be able to contend from inspiring English sources
Will Iraq's security forces be able to contend with pernicious threats from Al Qaeda's local offshoot?
Organisms that live in aquatic environments and whose integument is permeable to water, therefore, must be able to contend with osmotic pressure.
As for Nebraska, the Huskers should be able to contend for the title in the Legends Division, the strongest of the league's two divisions.
In 1998, her coach sat down privately with Vivian and hinted that her daughter might be able to contend for the Olympic team.
The overall process must be able to contend with a wide range of feedstocks, must be inherently safe, and should not rely on external facilities for co-reactants or heat rejection and supply.
Surely our small group of 10 would not be able to contend with the large teams representing groups like Random Hall (a team called Blatantly Obscene) or East Campus' Third East (a team called Kappa Sig, this year's winning team).
In private, Kostya thought that he might have been able to contend with Ivetta's anger, but in public he felt inhibited by shame.
"I think I had to come to terms with my own experience before I was able to contend with it in writing," Powers says.
"Our skills, our hand placement, our feet, all the work we've been doing, we're able to contend with larger people".
Dennis Rodman has plastered himself on Malone's elbow, and no one on the Jazz roster has been able to contend with Jordan physically.
