Sentence examples for contending over from inspiring English sources

Scholars tell us that there is no point in knowing what you want when the forces contending over you could kill you.

"Ghostwritten" sights its stories through an eschatological eye, as if gods and ghosts were observing present-day humanity and contending over what should be done with it.

The memo said he settled on a rough rule: He would use the words, when they fit, to describe attacks within Israel's 1948 borders but not in the occupied West Bank or Gaza, which Israel and the Palestinians have been contending over since Israel took them in 1967.

Canon and Explanation A74 read, "Disputation (bian) is contending over 'that' [i.e., exclusive alternatives].

They see it as contending over whether the shí (stuff, thing) at hand is of the kind ox or not.

It is contending over which of two complementary terms, such as 'ox' and 'non-ox', "fits" (dang) a thing (shí) (A74).

As he lay dying of cancer in a New York hospital, three women contended over him.

But to learn how to win consistently in the N.F.L., to contend over and over for Super Bowls, Tebow only has to push play.

Two teams that rarely exceed 10 12 riders contend over a defined field with set flags and circles the "black places"—as goals.

First, the two parties contended over the so-called fiscal cliff late last year, which threatened broad tax increases; they ultimately agreed to limit those to the richest taxpayers.

The tension, so evident last month in the tax fight over the fiscal deadline, is apparent again as Mr. Obama and a new Congress contend over the even more pressing need to increase the nation's debt limit next month.