"He is contending to become an emperor in a new era".
In Paris, François Hollande, the Socialist contending to become France's next president, has vowed to tax annual income above €1 million, or $1.3 million, at 75 percent.
Griping among players has become rampant, Irving hasn't played with his usual verve and newcomer Luol Deng seems lost on a team that was expected to make the playoffs but is contending only to become the NBA's biggest disappointment.
The PM, he contended, had the capacity to "become a heroic figure who mends the economy, while building a social and political framework capable of enduring for a generation".
We have far less space than ever before within which to be fallible and therefore, I would contend, far fewer opportunities to become better and wiser.
Breitbart's image of himself as a Western survivalist, he was explaining, referred to the sense of siege he felt in Los Angeles, which, he contends, has become egregiously radical since September 11 , 2001
In doing so, the agency was following a policy it contends had become increasingly necessary: turning over much of the responsibility for inspections and safety monitoring to engineers and architects hired by the developers themselves.
The women of recent feminist manifestoes, she contends, have become a class apart, their ambitions and concerns shared not by other women, but by elite men.
The women of recent feminist manifestoes, she contends, have become a class apart, with their own ambitions and concerns — concerns shared not by most women, but by elite men.
This surge of investors betting on rising prices, many observers contend, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, helping to push prices ever higher and thus attract yet more investment.But Bob Greer, of PIMCO, an asset-management firm, argues that even index funds make unlikely suspects.
