Damascus has been violently contended between government forces and opposition rebels since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
And there was an unusually close overlap, the committee contended, between appeals for donations and his intervention on legislative matters, citing in particular a meeting Mr. Rangel held in 2007 at a New York hotel with an executive from an oil drilling company at which he made a bid for a donation and also discussed a tax break the company was seeking.
Both women, Sara Levin and Maggie Jones, were turned down when they applied for apartments with their partners, who were not students at the medical school, on the Bronx campus, forcing them to choose, they contended, between their partners and their right to the university-subsidized housing.
"On the current trajectory," Allison contends, "war between the U.S. and China in the decades ahead is not just possible, but much more likely than currently recognized".
During the buildup to war, this book contends, tensions between Mr. Powell and Mr. Cheney grew so toxic that the two men "could not, and did not, have a sit-down lunch or any discussion about their differences".
He contends that between their leadership experience and service, vets are actually ideally suited to the high pressure environment of many startups.
China contends that fighting between the government in Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Army is subsiding, but residents say that the fighting is getting worse.
The lawsuit contends the meetings between university president Myles Brand and separate groups of four trustees were public meetings as defined by state law.
Parties splintered as some MPs backed the former Liberal government's claim that equality should trump all else, while others sided with Mr Harper, who contends that marriage between a man and a woman is an institution sanctified by faith.In revisiting the question, Mr Harper launches his first big battle as prime minister with religion at its core.
The Tea Party and the Occupy movements alike have strong roots in the American middle class, and though their diagnoses differ, each contends that collusion between the U.S. economic and political elites is making it ever harder to survive in the mere middle.
