Sentence examples for contention of doing from inspiring English sources

It will take an equally impressive performance to topple the New Zealand boat from her perch – although a host of 52 footers are in contention of doing just that – including last year's handicap winner Balance.

PETER J. BOYER: Congress could certainly change it, and would settle it (at least, this particular point of contention) by doing so.

This validates our argument that arbitrary choice of increasing or decreasing order of contention does not matter.

Bones of Contention Do Our Bones Influence Our Minds?

YB I was watching on TV from France and because her horse had dropped out of contention, I didn't realise she had come off.

Perhaps, but the contention is that doing so wouldn't necessarily improve the mood of the knife wielder.

Cu-porphysomes rely on passive targeting, a phenomenon whose clinical relevance is a point of contention as it does not allow uniform delivery of nanoparticles to all regions of tumors in sufficient quantities.

One area of contention has to do with whether animals that successfully use some aspect of human language are using it qua language, or are instead engaged in symbolic communication.

Gordon said he believed Johnson squeezed him down the track late in the race, setting off a crash that took Gordon out of contention, and Gordon did not mask his anger after the race.

But of course that contention doesn't hold true for stock purchases.

A major point of contention has to do with rosy promises Dream Dinners seemed to have made to its franchisees.