Sentence examples for contending theories from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Anderson (1978) offered a formal proof purporting to show that the two main contending theories are empirically equivalent.

Until this time, cell-mediated immunity and humoral immunity were considered to be contending theories to explain effective immune response, but the former lagged behind owing to lack of advanced techniques.

There are two contending theories of the natural world in India.

The batting revelation of this and perhaps many other years returned to the wicket after the first rain break to shatter one of the least contended theories of the game.

In the discipline of international relations there are contending general theories or theoretical perspectives.

Rather than merely being a description of the strong force, these physicists contended, string theory required reinterpretation as a critical step toward Einstein's unified theory.

Above all, behaviorists contend, standard theory fails to recognize that people take shortcuts in thinking, in effect bypassing rational analysis.

In addition, pragmatic theories contended that direct democracy could not work under space and time conditions of large modern states.

The DuPage County state's attorney, Joseph Birkett, and his team of prosecutors disputed that theory, contending that Mrs. Lemak planned the killings to get back at her husband.

But more recent theories contend that the opposite is sometimes true as well.

Critics of Marxist theories contend that the introduction to industrialisation and modernity by colonial powers and the insertion in the globalisation process is however beneficial for poor countries (Sachs 2005).