Sentence examples for contended recently from inspiring English sources

"There's no one really asking the question, 'What is the future of our communities?"' Mr. Gordon contended recently at the Brasil Coffee House in Long Island City, Queens, where he was joined by Mr. Brown and Ms. Singh.

The nation's leading cleric, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, contended recently on Vatican Radio that "after very difficult times," he saw a "great awakening" in Austria among those who understand that "our society needs the Gospel, prayer, faith".

Mr. Selig and the players union had contended until recently that blood testing for H.G.H. was not reliable because no Olympic athletes had been caught using it in seven years of limited testing.

Mr. Gregory pointed out that Mr. Kirk's official biography contended until recently that he had been named an "intelligence officer of the year" when it was actually his unit that was honored.

As if Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, did not have enough to contend with recently in fending off unwanted suitors and disgruntled shareholders.

Continental Airlines sued United Airlines and the committee that oversees operations at Washington Dulles International Airport yesterday, contending that recently installed baggage-sizing templates inhibited competition.

I called a meeting with myself to discuss this – it was less Cobra, more, er, Hippo, with the amount of mud and flooding the garden has had to contend with recently.

The problems Mr. Barak has had in contending with recently changed election procedures, which have resulted in a fragmented Parliament of small parties that pursue their own interests, were on full display again today.

The Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.

But a number of young professors, especially women, have recently contended that their bids for lifetime academic appointments were derailed by a more slippery fourth factor: collegiality.

Mr. Gusinsky recently contended that Mr. Voloshin had sought to bribe him to support the Kremlin in the campaigns, and failed.