Sentence examples for contention down from inspiring English sources

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Acquiring Curry was supposed to balance the Knicks' guard-dominant offense and put them back in playoff contention in the near term and in championship contention down the road.

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In some dire situation, they are there... What the contention comes down to is mining".

The contention comes down to exactly what was meant when Steve Chen of YouTube told CNet that "high quality" videos were coming to YouTube.

The Timbers' 1-1 tin in Washington on Wednesday night, despite De Rosario's 16th goal of the season, eliminated United from playoff contention and cut down the race for the 10th and final berth in Major League Soccer's postseason to three teams: the Red Bulls, the expansion Timbers and the surging Chicago Fire.

McNamara also insisted that the South Sydney prop Tom Burgess and the Leeds centre Zak Hardaker were in contention after stepping down to play for England Knights in their 52-16 thrashing of Samoa, which was played as a curtain-raiser at the Salford City Stadium on Saturday.

Could this relatively anonymous young squad at least fight for contention right down to the final weeks of the regular season?

The basic point of contention boiled down to Ackerman advocating for the sensible law enforcement and investigatory process that has successfully prosecuted terrorists by the score, and Buchanan suggesting that Abdulmutallab should have been carted off to some star chamber and tortured.

At a reading at the Harvard Book Store, the Massachusetts Democrat, author of A Fighting Chance, was asked about Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and specifically about its contention that trickle-down economics "definitively do not work".

Trailing 8-0 after a disastrous start, Taylor edged his way back into contention, but at 17-15 down and with Davis requiring just one more frame to win, Taylor won the next two to take the final into a deciding frame.

A federal appellate court decision last September in a case brought by Mr. Tasini and the National Writers Unionn struck down the contention by several publishers -- including The New York Times Company, Newsday and Time Inc. -- that electronic databases and archives were analogous to "collected works".

There was also a moment of contention when Darren Bent went down easily following a brush with Danny Batth on the edge of the box but, although referee Keith Stroud gave a free-kick, he chose not to punish the Wolves player.

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