Sentence examples for could contend to from inspiring English sources

"We're in an awkward transitional period between having a team that we thought could contend to a club that will be rebuilding next season," Shapiro said.

I'd give it to '09, '10 to say they could contend".

But if it classifies the photos, the government could contend that the danger posed to troops required withholding the photos.

But often that's not an option, and Ms. Radin warned that while deleting and initialing might help, the other side could contend that it never agreed to the changes.

How and why Palin could contend the interview was supposed to be anything otherwise, said one McCain advisor, "is nothing less than ludicrous".

It's hard to see how the court's conservative majority could contend that these expenditures pose no threat to American democracy.

The world championships proved to Lochte that he could contend with the best swimmers in the world when the events were aligned right, which they were not here.

Kobe Bryant asked to be traded last spring in part because he said he wanted to play for a team that could contend for a championship.

But the gap among the leading riders remained close, giving Horner and the other climbers hope that they could contend in the final stages, when the race returned to the mountains.

Certainly no one could contend that the interrogation faced by respondent bore any resemblance to the historical practices at which the right against compulsory self-incrimination was aimed.

In other words, the racists he understood and could contend with; the supposed right-thinking potential allies telling him to slow down were the real enemies of progress.