Sentence examples for current contentions from inspiring English sources

But, except for debates, I give out as my lecture title (it is always the same) "Reflections on Current Contentions".

There are always current contentions, and pundits always reflect on them––indeed, as in the troubles of President Clinton, revel in them.

The accounts of both Gingriches were then confirmed in a Washington Post interview that is at odds with the current contention of their daughter.

Otherwise, as depicted in Fig. 2, the device enters into a backoff procedure by randomly choosing a value from [ 0,w] as its BC, where w is the value of the device's current contention window.

A number of research publications (e.g., [1, 4, 5]) have proposed distributed algorithms that allow traffic sources to compute and enforce flow rate limits based on current contention levels in the network.

The backoff procedure in 802.11 works as follows: (i) draw an integer from a uniform distribution, where CW refers to the current contention window, (ii) multiply this integer with the slot time derived from the PHY layer in use, and set this as the backoff value, (iii) decrease the backoff value only when the channel is free, (iv) upon reaching a backoff value of 0, send immediately.

But in the far more influential New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the picture a fair and "creditable" reenactment and observed that MGM had "taken no obvious sides in the current atomic contentions".

Two adaptation algorithms over different time scales are employed to select the channel access parameters, which can best match the QoS requirements of each traffic class and the current channel contention level.

What constitutes a valid threat posted online is a point of current legal contention in the Supreme Court.

Part of the current issue is contentions by some members of the financial services industry that the Volcker Rule will restrict liquidity in markets, pushing up interest rates on corporate debt in particular and slowing economic growth.

Today editor Ceri Thomas is favourite for the role, with two others understood to be in contention – current affairs commissioning editor Clive Edwards and head of radio current affairs Nicola Meyrick.