Getting negative feedback is hard enough without having to contend with doubts about whether this feedback is useful, or worthless because it's prejudiced.
Any efforts to raise the age would contend with questions about whether the state's juvenile justice system, already under strain, can handle an even bigger load.
And Mr. Trump's supporters must continue to contend with questions about whether his upset for the ages was the result of foul play.
The charges contend that about $5.3 million of that amount was profit.
Some contend that this distinction about whether the treaty is sufficiently binding is unnecessary, alleging that the Paris Agreement does not require the United States to exceed its commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the legal grandfather of the Paris Treaty.
He researched how to carry out sniper attacks, they contend, and whether rifle scopes were illegal.
He researched how to carry out sniper attacks, [prosecutors] contend, and whether rifle scopes were illegal.
The big question, critics contend, is whether all those people actually get the health care the government has promised.
The denialists used this idea to foment doubt about whether climate change was as consistent as scientists contend or even whether it is happening at all.
Mainly, though, he had to contend with vitriol and nervousness about whether halftime was really the right moment.
The De Soles contend that Ms. Freedman misled them about whether "Untitled 1956" was going to be included in the definitive compendium of Rothko's work known as the catalogue raisonné, and that she gave them a written assurance that several experts, including Rothko's son, Christopher, had authenticated the painting when they had only briefly viewed it.
