Sentence examples for contention right from inspiring English sources

There were several points of contention right from the start.

"I'm not really concerned about winning or getting in contention right now," he said.

The Lions were at least still in contention right to the end, trailing by three points entering injury-time.

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

Seabass was in contention right to the last before Sunnyhillboy and eventual winner Neptune Collonges kicked on to produce one of the closest finishes in the race.

"It just supports our contention right from the beginning that this is all a farce, a politically motivated trial, trumped-up charges," he told reporters.

The problem with the recent spate of liberal-minded documentaries is that, even when their basic contention is right — or because they know it to be right — they tighten helplessly into smugness.

Like the Yankees, the Athletics rely on their starting pitchers, primarily Hudson, Mulder and Barry Zito, to keep them in contention, and right now they do not have the appearance of a contender.

But Bush did actually create such a database, called the National Security Entry-Exit RegistratioNSEERSem (NSEERS), that, according to CNN, "disproportionately targeted Arabs and Muslims and was a point of contention between rights groups and the federal government for nearly a decade".

Although her contention that right-wing "authoritarian" governments are more amenable to democratic reform than left-wing "totalitarian" states was proved wrong by Gorbachev, glasnost, the end of Soviet communism, and the transition to democracy of former Soviet republics and much of Eastern Europe, she continued to be a favorite of TV talk show hosts.

Another bone of contention concerned the "right to the city" – the growing political movement that seeks to enshrine the equal rights of all citizens at the heart of a city's governance.