Both sides had to contend with savage conditions, driving wind and rain almost throughout.
There were other smaller dramas to contend with, as well as driving through the recommendations of the McLeish report, which led to full-scale reform of the organisation following an annual general meeting vote in June 2011.
In all of these cases, a new landscape is emerging for the CIO to contend with – or embrace – and it's driving an all-new IT architecture of the future.
Are there internal or external motivators driving you to take this step and how do you contend with those?
But he also had to contend with feelings of guilt: although he had pleaded with his dad to stop driving, he had never had the nerve to take the car keys away.
"We also have to contend with emissions from aircraft and noise pollution, and we receive frequent reports of drink driving, robbery and trespassing," she said.
Samuels, appointed by President Obama in late 2011 following the embarrassing drunk-driving arrest of former BOP Director Harley Lappin, told lawmakers that his agency was forced to contend with a large inmate population on limited resources.
On a good day, there's just the dizziness induced by crazy driving, compounded by malnourishment and searing heat of the April summer or a rainy season downpour to contend with.
While there haven't been major self-driving bus initiatives of this scale in the West, Japan has different social issues to contend with.
He'll have to contend with Mr McFarlane, who appears to think he should be doing the job, and may not be able to resist back-seat driving, plus a sceptical media and political establishment with bad memories of the end result last time Barclays hired a … well, I won't repeat it again.
