Sentence examples for contended not from inspiring English sources

The painter Ad Reinhardt contended, not completely tongue-in-cheek, that anything useless is art.

The defense contended — not implausibly — that Franzone had been more complicit in the Greenwald affair than he was letting on.

But "fun" should not be a dirty word, he contended, not if the objective is to get a hesitant public to understand science.

They have contended not only that Mr. Cohn would not be independent of the Democratic organization but that his law firm, Goldberg & Cohn, has been the beneficiary of judicial patronage.

And the case was somewhat unusual, because the suit contended not that the managers had lost their clients' money, but that they had failed to earn enough, lagging the benchmarks of a bull market.

When Eric Adler and Rajiv Vinnakota, both former management consultants, opened the SEED School of Washington, D.C., in 1998, they had students like Reneka in mind: students who contended not only with failing schools but also with the risks of their neighborhood during the nonschool hours.

But this would be a case of false belief, he contends, not intuitive knowledge.

Mr. Dimon contends not, and he has been a consistent and vociferous opponent of the rule from the very beginning.

Many of the women were contending not just with the conditions of apartheid and poverty but with domestic violence.

Critics contend not, citing the failure of the profession to pass the acid test of a true science: the ability to predict events.

Like Cuisine Cucina and Soho Bistro before it, Sedona must contend not only with formidable nearby competition, but with its own rather unfortunate configuration.