Sentence examples for contention her from inspiring English sources

"Mothers Opposing McMahon," a group funded by the Connecticut Democratic Party, is out with a new ad seeking to ensure that one of Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon's biggest points of contention, her controversial past as a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, doesn't get swept under the rug.

Jennifer Steinhauer (NYT) MANHATTAN: MURDERER'S CHALLENGE REJECTED A woman convicted of murdering her husband with an ax failed to have her sentence of life imprisonment overturned when a federal judge rejected her contention that her trial lawyers had been ineffective.

They concluded that Ms. Tymoshenko's conviction was supported by the evidence presented at trial, and they found no evidence in the trial record to support to her main contention: that her prosecution was a politically motivated effort by Mr. Yanukovich, her archrival, to sideline her and cripple Ukraine's main opposition party.

The 65 on Friday for Gulbis was her first sub-70 round this season, putting her in contention for her first victory in seven years.

Considered along these lines, there is an irony to her repeated contention that her work is not to speak for people, but to enable them to speak for themselves.

This is one of her bones of contention with her artist peers; that so many of them are hopeless about business.

"If the death penalty shouldn't be applied in this case, then when?" Just how much Ms. Pirro spent on the Alvarez case has become a point of contention between her office and her critics.

Venus methodically worked her way back into contention after her ponderous start.

The Clinton campaign's only remaining argument for her superior "electability" rests on the contention that her ability to win primaries in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania makes her more "electable" in the general election.

Her contention was that her brother had ceased to grow and would grow no more.

Her parenting views have been a point of contention with her husband Phillip [Matthew Rhys]; she's just become aware of her mother's failing health.