Sentence examples for contending nations from inspiring English sources

There is also the sheer diversity of ages and body types, as well as the number of seriously contending nations in the shooting events.

There's no particular news in demonstrating that under those circumstances friendships between individuals can thrive while relationships between and among contending nations founder, but Rogers expresses the unchanging reality with gritty grace, and Bartlett Sher directs with equal harsh sensitivity.

It is formatted a bit like the Fifa World Cup, in that contending nations are divided into groups, in this case four of them with six teams in each.

(Krugman contends that nations can create comparative advantages by subsidizing certain industries, something the ancients once called Mercantilism).

One commentator, André Forastieri, said that Brazil owed Haitians nothing, contending that European nations and the United States had contributed to Haiti's problems.

3.23pm BST 22 min: "Understandable frustration here, where the game is seen not just as a warm up for the 2014 World Cup but a contest between two nations contending for bragging rights in Latin America," says Jonathan Watts.

This week in the Torah, we read of nations contending within Rebekah's womb (Genesis 25:22-23), of siblings competing with one another.

Whatever the future, he and other specialists contend the nation can never return to welfare as we knew it.

But, he contended, the nation's economy is open and flexible enough that the inevitable adjustments, like a continuation of this year's decline in the foreign exchange value of the dollar, are most likely to be gradual.

A7 NATIONAL A8-19 Bush Defends the War And His Presidency President Bush offered a preview of the way he will defend his presidency, justifying the war in Iraq even though no banned weapons have been found there, saying he has acted aggressively to help the economy and contending that the nation can trust him as a steady leader.

After thousands of years of bloody wars among contending tribes, regions, and nations, is it finally possible to dispense with the chauvinist ideas of the past?