Sentence examples for contended only from inspiring English sources

The lawsuit, however, contended only that players had been misled by the NFL over the risk of head injuries.

We have not adaptations to such a world; no native defenses against caloric excess or the lure of the couch, having contended only with their opposites throughout all the ages.

Forest City is not surrendering and contends only a restraining order can stop the eminent domain process and construction.

If the election goes ahead, Mr Thaksin will gain an even bigger majority than he has now, and will have to contend only with the few tiny parties that are not joining the boycott.

That forced a retreat to the restaurant's partially enclosed sidewalk space, where diners had to contend only with the throb of idling delivery trucks and the roar of passing motorcycles.

It contends only that what it offers is less bad than the alternatives (though its case against one alternative — what it calls, a little tendentiously, "precipitate" or "premature" withdrawal — is more asserted than argued).

England could contend only with what was in front of them and, aware that Pakistan have made a habit of defending all manner of targets (they had won 11 of 13 matches batting first, 21 from 28 in all), they set out to nuzzle them.

In this way, each node in a cluster contends only with other clusters and not with other nodes in the same cluster.

As Russell summarizes, "The laws of social dynamics are – so I shall contend – only capable of being stated in terms of power in its various forms" (1938, 15).

It contends only for "a connection solely within our thought: if we think in certain ways, we must think in certain other ways" (Stern 1999b: 165).

Mickelson's own Open record was poor for the longest time, contending only occasionally over the course of 20 years until finally he cracked it at Muirfield in one of the rounds of the ages on Sunday last year.