Sentence examples for contend as a from inspiring English sources

Those numbers were valid, of course, before the war to depose President Bashar al-Assad ensnared a city known — wrongly, many contend — as a pillar of the regime.

Justice Scalia presents the case, Mr. Amsterdam and Mr. Bruner contend, as a "winner-take-all struggle" in which the adulterous villain must be punished and the "sanctity" of the family restored.

It would be a challenge to contend, as a number of readers did, that the war will, in fact, be a Democratic plus because over two-thirds of the populace now believes that it was a mistake (a point that other posters countered by saying that the initial involvement was old, "stale news" and of interest only to the far left).

JK Rowling is said to have drawn on personal experience to inform her bestselling Harry Potter series – but if she is ever to resurrect the beloved boy wizard The Curse of the Burgeoning Leylandii is unlikely to contend as a frontrunning title.

In an age in which many aspects of technology could still be considered the "Wild West," and tech gurus "outlaws," I contend, as a whole, that this is a problem we should get in front of rather than behind.

Lithuania was able to again contend as an independent country at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

He then seems to contend, as an exhaustive and exclusive disjunction, that things happen either by chance or for the sake of something, only to suggest, finally, that what is 'always or for the most part' what happens in a patterned and predictable way is not plausibly thought to be due to chance.

The suit contends, as have an international Truth Commission and others, that he and Mr. Garcia obstructed the inquiry into the killing of the women and of government opponents.

"Just knowing that we are a few pieces away from really contending as a team, it just makes me happy," Rose said.

So, he contends, as an underdog "insurgent" candidate, he need only do "well," not beat Mr. Gore outright.

The application of CIL by an international adjudicator is best understood, this chapter contends, as an effort to determine the preferences of the relevant community of states concerning the norms that should apply in the absence of a controlling treaty.