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If he remains defiant he will have a bank run to contend with by Tuesday morning.

But in addition to the continuing national state of emergency and drastically beefed-up security operation following November's attacks, organisers have had to contend with strikes by railway workers and airline pilots, overflowing bins because of stoppages by refuse workers, a national fuel shortage and floods.

As for the biggest prize of the night, video of the year, there's an Australian earworm nestled in with the bangers: Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know will contend with songs by Drake, Rihanna, Perry and MIA.

Mr. Leavitt, who was confirmed, 88 to 8, will contend with suits by states that challenge the Bush administration decision not to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and easing rules for coal-burning power plants.

Third, energy is not the only limit we have to contend with; research by the Stockholm Resilience Centre suggests we have exceeded, or are on course to exceed, safe levels relating to the nitrogen cycle, biodiversity, climate change, ocean acidification, freshwater use, land system change, aerosol loading and chemical pollution.

The Byzantines also defeated an Arab army marching to aid the besiegers through Asia Minor, while Maslama's men had to contend with attacks by the Bulgars as well, which cost them many men.

The Scouts have already had to contend with similar sanctions by other school systems and municipalities.

Singapore, like everyone else, has to increasingly contend with information disseminated by new media and is no longer able to ensure that only positive images of itself appear.

Sir Menzies, 66, had to contend with an admission by the leader of the lords, Lord McNally, that there had been rumblings over his leadership in the summer.

Instead, as a result of Pettitte's backtracking, the prosecution now must contend with a motion by the defense to have Pettitte's testimony about his initial H.G.H. conversation with Clemens dismissed as evidence because it is "insufficiently definitive".

Prokofiev, who wrote the libretto with Katayev, had to contend with strictures imposed by Soviet censors, who insisted that the novella's revolutionary themes be treated with heroic grandeur.