Sentence examples for difficult contention from inspiring English sources

Mr. Snowden must show that the United States would deny him due process and the ability to defend himself: a difficult contention to say the least.

Other issues, like sharing water from the Indus Valley rivers, are also difficult points of contention.

With August setting up to be a very difficult month of playoff contention teams, I want to see the Revs play consistently.

As a large number of sensor nodes will respond to a gateway, avoiding contention is difficult.

A trust company executive or director can be sued only for failing to exercise reasonable business judgment — a contention very difficult to prove in court.

And with so many players in contention, it was difficult to predict what would happen.

As such, this aftershock may make it difficult to justify the regulators' contention that the disgrace of Mahmood Al Zarooni represents a flagrant exception in a sport that permits no grey areas in the use of steroids.

It is difficult to accept the apparent contention of William E. Kennard, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, that only by carrying presidential debates would networks "serve the needs of citizens by facilitating an informed democratic process" (Op-Ed, Oct. 3).

It is difficult to argue with the contention that wide literary reading enhances the ability to view human experience from a variety of different perspective (which, as Pinker correctly points out, is not actually the same as the ability to feel compassion).

It should be remembered that protest is by nature both contentious and disruptive – any scholar of its history will tell you as much, and if a polity is incapable of dealing with collective contention it is difficult to see how it is embodying democratic principles.

Unfortunately, the systematics of Lysmata and the Hippolytidae itself are in contention, making it difficult to examine these taxa for trends in life history traits.