Just because New York ought to support two established opera companies, as so many in the business contend, doesn't necessarily mean that it has to.
The recognition and protection of individuality and difference, they contend, does not necessarily entail denying the existence of community or the benefits of living together.
What is confusing is that contend does take a clause that completes its meaning: Some contend that Newton was autistic.Because the clause complementing contend looks a bit like a direct object, whom is tempting.
Such policies, they contend, do not just imply that blacks can succeed only if they are given preferential treatment; they have also restored racial classifications into the heart of American government.
This Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the film-makers contend, does not come from the cover of a Laura Ashley catalogue or the top of a chocolate box; it is down and dirty.
Most consumers, they contend, don't realize that just connecting to their Internet service generates a stream of data about their habits and preferences.
Such language, they contended, didn't amount to criminal conduct.
Or, instead, as the complaint contends, did Enron guarantee that Merrill would make money?
Not until our primate ancestors began eating hallucinatory psilocybin mushrooms, he contended, did they begin to acquire human qualities.
Citigroupdisclosed in a regulatory filing that it was being sued by several investors, including Charles Schwab and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, in an effort to force Citigroup to buy back soured mortgages that the investors contended did not conform to proper underwriting standards.
