Sentence examples for contentions a from inspiring English sources

To sustain the contentions a number of state cases are cited.

"Is the United States ever going to take a firm stand?" wonders Decter, editor of Contentions, a neoconservative newsletter, and chairman of the Committee for the Free World.

Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association's best book of the year award); with Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser, Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (1994); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture.

Figure 3 An example of weak and strong contentions: (a) the node topology graph, (b) the corresponding strong contention graph, and (c) the corresponding weak contention graph.

To sustain these contentions an elaborate argument is presented and a number of cases are cited.

I was in contention a lot.

I've been in contention a lot in major championships.

Finally, after much contention, a consensus was reached and everyone was happy (more or less).

The event was held to discuss his book War, States, & Contention: A Comparative Historical Study, published last year by Cornell University Press.

Our search led us to Yorktown Heights, where one house in particular was in contention, a split-levelly thing.

I am playing nicely, comfortable with my game, being in contention a little bit without quite getting the win.