Sentence examples for contending forces from inspiring English sources

Given the array of contending forces, inertia seemed a cinch.

For both artists, nature is a personal matter as well as a drama of contending forces.

The old screwball idea of heterosexual courtship as a battle of equally matched, contending forces is close to extinct.

Like Berlin in microcosm, this crossroads has for centuries been a theatre of power, a field of contending forces.

Her interest in St. Augustine led her to a fascination with Manichaeanism, the doctrine that the universe is a battleground between equal, contending forces of Light and Darkness.

To him the whole war was an irrelevance; he saw it simply as a struggle of contending forces which were alike Imperialist and capitalist.

Each contended force could have resulted in or contributed to the same failings.

Organizations like In Defense of Animals and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals contend force-feeding is inherently inhumane.

But with the law, states had to report their test scores, and that spotlight, Schneider and others contend, forced schools to pay attention to their performance.

Similarly, the U.N. peacekeeping forces will not seek out military engagements, but will simply keep contending Afghan forces separated and maintain security.

The bird, he said, was just like any poor citizen caught in the crossfire of contending ideological forces.