Damascus has been violently contended between government forces and opposition rebels since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
And there was an unusually close overlap, the committee contended, between appeals for donations and his intervention on legislative matters, citing in particular a meeting Mr. Rangel held in 2007 at a New York hotel with an executive from an oil drilling company at which he made a bid for a donation and also discussed a tax break the company was seeking.
Both women, Sara Levin and Maggie Jones, were turned down when they applied for apartments with their partners, who were not students at the medical school, on the Bronx campus, forcing them to choose, they contended, between their partners and their right to the university-subsidized housing.
(Islandia has rich mineral reserves). Later, he begins to doubt whether he was right to do so; the country's identity crisis becomes his own, as he contends between the American way of life and the Islandian one.
As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin has persuasively argued, the abortion issue is not a debate, as conservatives contend, between those who hold life sacred and those who don't.
Later, he begins to doubt whether he was right to do so; the country's identity crisis becomes his own, as he contends between the American way of life and the Islandian one.
The fund's lawyers contended that between 1996 and 2001, the company's board awarded more stock options to Mr. Siebel than shareholders had approved.
The indictment contended that, between the middle of 1996 and late 1998, Mr. Bond used his discretionary control of his clients' accounts to direct millions of dollars of the clients' brokerage business to Lintz Glover and Value Investing Partners.
Due to its strategic location, Tbilisi was repeatedly contended for between empires, until its annexation by Russia in the early 19th century, a factor that is to be taken into consideration when accounting for the city's complex ethnic identity and urban fabric.
In his 58-minute opening, Captain Morrow cited logs of searches and downloads from Private Manning's classified work computer, deleted files from his personal laptop including chat logs he contended were between Private Manning and a person he said was the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and other such records to show the pace and scale of his downloads.
In total, the investors contended, $20.6 million shifted between March 2003 and June 2005 from certain Bayou accounts at Goldman to others at the firm.
