Sentence examples for contentions advanced from inspiring English sources

"The issues raised in their respective cases were properly raised even though the principal contentions advanced have been rejected".

The Israeli leader issued a tart response to the president's speech before emplaning for Washington on Thursday night.Beyond the mention of 1967 and other detailed specifics earnestly being parsed by the experts, Mr Obama's speech was striking in that it deliberately embraced and articulated the key contentions advanced by the Israeli peace camp, now in opposition to the Netanyahu government.

Throughout The Monuments Men, the contention advanced by Clooney's Stokes is that the various pieces of stolen art they've been tasked with rescuing and returning are a symbol of Western civilization, and to simply allow them to be destroyed is akin to erasing the cultures they represent from existence.

Another false argument advanced by the Foreign Office in several memoranda is the contention that the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 has no retroactive effect and therefore, does not apply to the Armenian Genocide.

The final place will be decided on Tuesday when Zimbabwe play Pakistan in Group A, with those two sides and England in contention to advance.

The win keeps Algeria in contention to advance out of the group stage entering its June 26 match against Russia.

The stunning 2-2 tiensureded that all four teams in Group G will remain in contention to advance -- or be eliminated -- when the final pair of games in the group are played simultaneously on June 26.

Furthermore, the relevant disciplines (psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence) were not then advanced enough to to support Kuhn's contentions concerning paradigms, or those disciplines were antithetical to Kuhn's views (in the case of classical AI).

Williams, who remained in contention for the gold in doubles with her sister Serena, had advanced to the singles semifinal with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victoverover Sanchez-Vicario.

His lawyers had continued to advance additional contentions until December, when Mr. McVeigh told the trial judge, Richard P. Matsch, that he wanted to stop his appeals.

The new viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, believing the continuous contention between the Congress and the Muslim League might lead to a collapse of the interim government.