Sentence examples for because he contended from inspiring English sources

Paul P. Dudley, the president of Linden, which operates a municipal airport in New Jersey, asked the review committee to reject FirstFlight because it had no experience operating a heliport and because, he contended, its bid was inferior to Linden's.

When he was chancellor at Vanderbilt, Gee disbanded the athletic department because he contended sports had become too separate from the rest of the university.

In July 1999, a Hempstead village police officer extinguished the temple's outdoor ceremonial fire, because he contended it was a code violation.

A member of Parliament for Durham (1841), Fitzroy became governor of New Zealand in 1843 but was recalled in 1845 largely because he contended that Maori land claims were as valid as those of the settlers.

Mr. Corzine said he rued having supported Mr. Christie's nomination for United States attorney when he was a senator because, he contended, Mr. Christie politicized the job and used it as a launching pad.

But Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue (who is in a dispute with Mr. Newman over the rights to the group's name), described the trial as a "scam" because, he contended, Mr. Roeder had not been permitted to "really tell his side of the story".

He traveled to Britain and France without difficulty until 1988, when he landed at Charles de Gaulle airport after being denied entry into Britain, because, he contends, his passport and refugee certificate were stolen in a mugging on a Paris subway.

But Waheed Saleh, originally from Jenin in the occupied West Bank and now living in Yonkers, did not want to pay it because, he contends, a principle was at stake.

[New York Post] A 61-year-old former lifeguard at Long Beach on Long Island is suing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation because he contends he was fired for not wearing a Speedo during a swim test.

Lee E. Koppelman, the executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board, said that he was very skeptical of the study's findings because he contends that the difference of five pounds between city dwellers and suburbanites was negligible.

Mr. Kerkorian is suing DaimlerChrysler because he contends company officials misrepresented the 1998 transaction as a "merger of equals" that would lead to two semiautonomous companies, one German and one American.