Sentence examples for contended instead from inspiring English sources

Zamboni contended instead that blocked veins prevent blood from draining from the head, causing iron to back up in the brain and damage nerves that send messages to the body.

He contended instead that it expresses the idea that individuals are each capable of rational freedom, transforming themselves and irrational objective conditions to promote progress and the general good.

According to Tonegawa's research, each antibody protein is not encoded by a specific gene, as one theory contended; instead, antibodies are constructed from a relatively small number of gene fragments that are rearranged randomly to generate different antibody molecules.

Conroy's few friends, the ones who didn't believe that he'd killed her and then hanged himself out of remorse, contended instead that after her disappearance he'd done it out of grief.

Appellants make no attempt to prove the truth of these accusations, contending instead that they were mere hyperbole involving no statement of fact.

It contends instead that all income of a corporation doing any business in a State is, by virtue of common ownership, part of the corporation's unitary business and apportionable.

He contends instead that the major factors pushing up the deficit were the Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, at a cost of $3.6 trillion over 10 years and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Flynn dismisses concerns about Islamophobia, contending instead that excessive "Islamophilia" (when "leftists treat Muslims as children whose feathers should not be ruffled") makes it hard for leaders and citizens to grasp the challenge at hand.

Mr. Spitzer's suit, to be filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, will contend, instead, that gun makers and wholesalers have contributed to a public nuisance, and he has an important, built-in advantage: New York State law already defines illegal guns as a public nuisance.

They contend instead that the sanctions should remain in place against Iran in order to prevent Iran from gaining access to this new source of funds and then using it to foment trouble.

He was contending instead that the federal government should use all of its powers to promote economic development, and his way of doing that was to cut deals with wealthy financiers and businesspeople to get them excited about the new nation.