Sentence examples for contended before from inspiring English sources

This series has contended, before, that the archetypal Romantic-Era literary-genius isolato, however celebrated by both post-Language Poetry scions and hordes of would-be "professional" poets now working in academia, is in fact a dying breed; poetry is more and more a communal and community-oriented enterprise.

"They actually laugh," one letter writer contended before offering to provide council members a ferret to interact with.

On Sept. 5, Sal's lawyer contended before Justice Kapnick that his client never had an opportunity to submit a proper defense and argued that the damages were unfairly calculated.

An assistant attorney general, Richard W. Berg, contended before a three-judge panel in the Appellate Division of Superior Court that a lower court judge had erred on Oct. 31 when he threw out an indictment against the troopers, James Kenna and John Hogan, who are both white.

Savage also contended before the National Arbitration Forum that the "savagestupidity.com" and "michaelsavagesucks.com" domain names were "confusingly similar" to his own "michaelsavage.com", and that he should be given those domain names.

Witnesses have contended before the grand jury that Sandusky committed a range of sexual offenses against boys as young as 10, assaulting them in hotel swimming pools, the basement of his home in State College and in the locker room showers at Penn State, where the 67-year-old former assistant football coach once built a national reputation as a defensive mastermind.

In the fourth act, two prophets contend before King Zedekiah as he faces destruction by Babylonian armies.

The course at Bethpage required power to contend, and many players believed they could not contend before they struck a shot.

Mr. Schenkkan replaced Mr. Simmons as the third writer on the project, the lawsuit contends, before it was taken over by Mr. Zwick.

If she is now taken to be merely a Mrs.-in-waiting, well, it's only a matter of time, I contend, before she is remade as a self-sufficient gal frantically occupied with being fabulous and single.

But he has contended here before and if he somehow stumbles across a serviceable putting stroke, he will contend this week.