Sentence examples for contends like from inspiring English sources

He contends, like Hegel, that we must "surrender to the life of the object".

Robert J. Scott, a lawyer at Scott & Scott in Dallas, contends like many others that the alliance's figure is too high and that the group draws imprecise conclusions about the purchases that people would have made if they weren't pirating software.

Such an illocution is, he contends, like inviting and surrendering, which can occur whether or not their intended audiences grasp or accept the proffered illocutions.

In this paper we contend, like many other authors have in the past (see, among others, Díaz-Alejandro 1970 , 1984 Mallon and Sourrouille 1975; O'Donnell 1977; Waisman 1987; Rogowski 1989; Gerchunoff 1989; Taylor 1994; Gerchunoff and Llach 2004), that a severe distributional conflict lies at the core of this phenomenon.

(The preface begins, "Wrestling is not, as some contend, like life. Wrestling is life — reduced to its essence").

Marcus, indeed, was so averse to bloodshed that he even used to watch the gladiators in Rome contend, like athletes, without risking their lives; for he never gave any of them a sharp weapon, but they all fought with blunted weapons like foils furnished with buttons.

You have other issues to contend with like drugs in the sport and this kind of thing and just everything put together, it's just a battle.

Although New Yorkers like to have it their way, Mr. Rolfe contends that they like speed more.

People are drawn to these illicitly obtained photographs, she contends, because they like to "revel in the humiliation" of the victims.

He contends that — like the Roe v. Wade legalization of abortion — a Supreme Court ruling in favor of nationwide gay marriage would inflame hostility, even violence, especially in the Southern states.

Ms. Berliner contends that like the upturned crest rails on nearby Ming chairs, the flanges on the long table relate to the roof ridge in Chinese houses from the Han period to the present.