Sentence examples for contend said from inspiring English sources

"You hope that riders come up and contend," said Jacobellis, 24.

"The atmosphere at the meeting was to let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend," said Chen Yizi, who helped organize the conference.

Although a judge reduced the award and the case was settled out of court, it also created a more adversarial legal environment with which Catholic authorities have had to contend, said Mark Chopko, general counsel for the bishops' conference.

The main verb is was, not contend, say or think.

The violence was not premeditated, he and Mr. Samson both contend, saying that the Sene men were merely berating the girls for drinking alcohol and dancing in pubs when one of the girls retorted with, "None of your business; who are you to ask?" That enraged the protesters and the violence followed, they say.

'It is contended,' said the court, 'that as the provision of the act in respect to the execution and exchange of the State bonds is unconstitutional, the one in relation to the statutory lien on the property of the company is also void and must fall.

It was Tanaka alone who directed the effort to foil the federal inquiry, Hochman contended, saying the undersheriff took advantage of the trust Baca put in him to pursue his own agenda.

'[Stephen] Lewis is leading us all down the primrose path to a dead end,' Mr. Bale contended, saying more money for medical infrastructure in Africa, rather than yet another international supplier of cheap drugs, is what's needed to fight AIDS and other health crises"[ 6].

"They definitely have a chance to contend," Jones said.

"We have the talent to contend," he said.

"It's no secret that I expect us to contend," Johnson said.