Mr. Yen and Mr. Yip reteamed — along with the illustrious fight choreographer Sammo Hung — for "Ip Man 2," which covers its hero's years in 1950s Hong Kong, as he contends with rival instructors and thuggish British colonialists.
The discovery of a heavily armed Shiite-led cult, intent on attacking venerated Shiite symbols and leaders, startled Iraqi security officials who were already contending with rival religious factions battling for supremacy in the country.
These consortia will have to contend with rival agendas, wariness from suppliers and thorny software-compatibility issues.
But the ancients did have to answer various forms of relativism, immoralism, and skepticism, contending with rival philosophical schools which disagreed profoundly with one another.
Reflecting the shifting religious landscape that Pope Benedict XVI's successor will contend with, Brazil rivals the United States as the nation with the most Pentecostals, as a Catholic monolith gives way amid a surge in evangelical Protestant churches.
The architects who imagined these towers, and the owners who realized them, had to contend with jealous rivals, architectural critics, skeptical financiers, contrarian board members and wary public officials to see their structures stand.
Adventity also must contend with homegrown rivals.
However it must now contend with online rivals such as Netflix and Amazon.
On the other hand, they now have to contend with foreign rivals, such as HSBC and Santander, that entered the Brazilian market by taking over the weaklings.
On the one hand, it's crowded: Amazon (via its LOVEFiLM subsidiary) and Netflix have been duking it out over premium content exclusives for their UK services, and they have to contend with homegrown rivals like Sky and even offerings directly from broadcasters, such as the iPlayer service from the BBC.
The narrator must also contend with a rival, a powerful warlord, known as the warden, who is the head of an insurgency that is somehow involved in the global chaos.
