"contend over" is a phrase that is used in written English and it means to compete or struggle for something.
For example: Each of the presidential candidates had to contend over the same pool of voters.
But to learn how to win consistently in the N.F.L., to contend over and over for Super Bowls, Tebow only has to push play.
Two teams that rarely exceed 10 12 riders contend over a defined field with set flags and circles the "black places"—as goals.
In a league dominated by a small number of franchises, most from the larger markets, the Spurs of South Texas have been conspicuous in their ability to contend over an extended period without glitz or hype.
The tension, so evident last month in the tax fight over the fiscal deadline, is apparent again as Mr. Obama and a new Congress contend over the even more pressing need to increase the nation's debt limit next month.
It is like Æsop's man with a coat whom the wind and sun contend over, using maximum and minimum effort to get their way; it is like a town under siege and betrayed and misruled – this in an age where the rules of war were about to become quite staggeringly brutal; it is like gender change, the breaking of betrothal and rape.
Confident words from a confident young man but for all his brilliance and for all that he has already had a couple of top-five finishes in majors, the 2009 US PGA at Hazeltine and at this year's Open, the young Ulsterman has yet to really contend over the back nine on Sunday.
As he lay dying of cancer in a New York hospital, three women contended over him.
First, the two parties contended over the so-called fiscal cliff late last year, which threatened broad tax increases; they ultimately agreed to limit those to the richest taxpayers.
Scholars tell us that there is no point in knowing what you want when the forces contending over you could kill you.
"Ghostwritten" sights its stories through an eschatological eye, as if gods and ghosts were observing present-day humanity and contending over what should be done with it.
The upper rungs of the "embedded hierarchies" cited by Keohane's study are vigorously contended over by the élite fraternities and sororities, but the alpha partyers at Duke are the members of the men's lacrosse team.
