Sentence examples for contention something from inspiring English sources

The difficulty is making sure the shootout doesn't move a team out of playoff contention, something the defending Stanley Cup champion Kings have battled this season.

But the formal point in contention is something much broader: limiting the concept of religious ministry to those institutions whose aim is to propagate the faith, by mainly employees of the same faith, to clients mainly of the same faith.

But the album's overall worldview is perhaps best expressed in "Pride Of The Yankees", which illustrates Hood's apocalyptic contention that "Something is constantly scheming and brewing/ To make our lives a disaster movie".

What we're seeing is the coded design of a system contending with an unintended effect, and as much as they are in contention with something unexpected, the code is still manifested in very strict parameters.

The results support the contention that "something more than personal financial gain is driving professional behaviour" (p.5).

I went out there with the intent to keep myself in contention by shooting something under par.

But Abbott disagrees with this state government solution, saying in his letter, "My basic contention is that something that's been found to be safe in a reliable jurisdiction shouldn't need to be tested here again.

Adopt the most open interpretation of this statement from his letter, "my basic contention is that something that has been found to be safe in a reliable jurisdiction shouldn't need to be tested again here".

Dallas have dominated long periods of games so far, while often allowing opponents to ease back into contention at crucial periods – something that eventually saw them punished by Seattle.

"I heard Mike Schmid (Esher coach) say in his interview that the breakdown is a bone of contention and it's something that as a coaching team we like to get the referees to get consistent and they're certainly not at the moment".

Goldhill's contention that there is something in Christianity inhospitable to dialogue is literally false but gets at a more difficult question about how and whether dissent is tolerated in medieval Christianity, with parallel questions that have and should be asked about medieval Jewish and Muslim culture.