Sentence examples for closely contending from inspiring English sources
Last year, the American government provided less than half of what it did in 2008 for Somalia aid operations partly because United Nations agencies and private aid groups refused to sign an agreement to police the distribution of aid more closely, contending that it would make deliveries nearly impossible.
PORTLAND, Maine, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will come to Maine on Tuesday to campaign for the Democratic candidate for governor, Mike Michaud, party officials announced this week, shining a national spotlight on one of the most closely contended gubernatorial races of 2014.
On the Republican side, Mr. Bush assured himself of the nomination by defeating or contending closely with Senator McCain everywhere except New England, a region as out of step with the rest of the country in 2000 as the South was a half-century ago.
More importantly, when you look more closely at the data, the elderly Danes were contending with their share of health problems and dependence, as Dr. Christensen acknowledged.
At the heart of the worries over Sprint are SoftBank's use of equipment manufactured by Huawei and ZTE, companies that lawmakers have contended are closely tied to the Chinese government.
Once the East Side store stepped up its national and international marketing, Mr. Toro sued, contending that its recipe for success was to butter up too closely to his coattails.
Federal investigators have been closely scrutinizing Coke since last summer after Matthew Whitley, a former finance director, filed a lawsuit against the company contending that he was fired after alerting senior management to illegal business practices in Coke's food service division.
How is she contending the order?
All are top players for contending teams.
Contending for the title seems premature.
