Sentence examples for contend what from inspiring English sources

They contend what their concessions — on optional background checks and abusers — were in territory that had grown harder to defend.

After the opening statements, during which both sides are permitted to contend what they please, the judges will permit little leeway aside from what is relevant to each witness's testimony.

Many detailed and vast research papers and draft legislation, contend what should be privacy best practice.

If the notion of mind-independent existence is incoherent, as anti-realists contend, what should we put in its stead?

"We have seen charters that work well, but we still contend what we said in the beginning.

But Wogan contended: "What commentator wouldn't see the funny side of that?

As Patten contends, what brought rapid economic development to the Asian "tigers" was the same thing that brought it to countries elsewhere: capitalism, hard work, frugality, limited government.

These effects — the reddening of the sea, the darkening of the sky, the thriving of frogs and lice — were, he contends, what is meant by the notorious plagues of the Old Testament.

St Paul declared that "it is shameful for a woman to speak in church", while a 16th-century writer on rhetoric contended, "What becometh a woman best, and first of all: Silence".

While what Venusto did was indefensible and deserves punishment (she apparently contends what she did was unethical but not illegal... good luck with that Ms. Vensuto) the management of the Northwestern Lehigh School District Educational Technology Department have much to answer for.

When we appreciate a painting, Lewis contends, what we contemplate is what this canvas could have in common with some reproduction of it, namely, "that qualitative and abstract essence which is here incorporated, and is theoretically repeatable in some other physical object" (1946, 477).