Sentence examples for first contended that from inspiring English sources

She first contended that the state's real debt had grown much less -- about 6percentt a year -- explaining that her financial officers had begun recognizing many existing obligations as debt, in the interest of "honest accounting".

It was Romney who first contended that the Obama administration initially denied that the attack in Benghazi was an act of terror for fear that it would sully the president's reelection claim that he had "decimated" Al Qaeda.

Some skeptics, including Wendell Potter, a former Cigna executive who has become a vocal critic of the industry for putting profits first, contend that insurers' seeming consensus veils their opposition to real changes in the ways they do business.

The first contends that it is tacitly circular, because the content of intention always includes the concept of intentionality (Wilson 1989, pp. 274 5; Ginet 1990, pp. 34 5).

Membership First contends that their actions towards AFTRA this year were not responsible for AFTRA deciding to negotiate separately -- rather, that AFTRA was determined to do so in any case.

The second contends that the same mental kind can be a property of systems that are not in the same (Turing) computational state.

Second, she contends that group justification is constrained by certain epistemic obligations that arise from professional relationships among group members, a complication that the aggregative account lacks the ability to accommodate.

(The following analysis of these first dialogue arguments is indebted to Margaret Wilson's account in "Berkeley on the Mind-Dependence of Colors," Wilson 1999, 229 242.[10]) Philonous begins his first argument by contending that sensible qualities such as heat are not distinct from pleasure or pain.

The late oceanographer John Martin first contended in the 1980s that places like the Southern Ocean lack a nutrient other than nitrogen and phosphorus that microscopic plants need.

At first he contended that the railroad's mission was to serve city-bound passengers, but a few minutes later he said the railroad was being underused in reducing congestion.

Capriati had two theories: first, she contended that Venus and Serena rarely play in the same Tour events so they will not have to face each other, risking a loss of a match and ranking points; second, she said the absence of injured stars like Lindsay Davenport had saved the Williams sisters from potential defeats in earlier rounds.