Sentence examples for contended essentially from inspiring English sources

The government contended essentially that the telephone colossus was illegally stifling competition, using regulator-sanctioned profits from the telephone business to subsidize unregulated businesses, like making equipment.

The government contended essentially that the telephone colossus -- which then provided both local and long-distance service -- was illegally stifling competition, using regulator-sanctioned profits from the telephone business to subsidize unregulated businesses, like manufacturing equipment.

The incident, he contends, essentially made it open season to ridicule him for his minority status.

But in a 1997 deposition -- from a lawsuit contending, essentially, that Enron's business model had been stolen from a New York businessman, Bernard H. Glatzer -- Mr. Fastow provided answers to some of the questions that investigators are puzzling over: For example, why were assets of Enron moved into the partnerships?

People close to the governor talk, as Republican strategists have for decades, of winning over minority voters, particularly Hispanics, who, they contend, are essentially conservative.

Alston, Quinn contends, is essentially working off of a pre-Kantian model of religious belief when he encourages religious exclusivists to sit tight in the face of peer conflict since, in the absence of any objective basis for determining which perspective is right, the exclusivist has no sufficient reason not to do so.

Some black musicians contended that they essentially owned jazz and that it was being stolen from them by whites.

Rice and the union contended he was essentially sentenced twice, and Jones agreed.

Patti contended that Tyson was essentially fighting on one leg.

Essentially, Foreman contended that Kramer had been indifferent, even hostile to the film but took credit for it when its creator -- Foreman -- became vulnerable because of the blacklist.

The government's lawsuit essentially contends that the ramped-up mortgage initiative that she oversaw put pressure on mortgage underwriters to originate riskier yet more profitable housing loans.