Sentence examples for first time contending from inspiring English sources

During his seven years on the PGA European Tour, he has had quite a bit of success, but this was his first time contending in a major championship.

Thursday's meeting at the White House was the first time that contending senators sat down with each other and Bush administration policymakers to seek a compromise.

When the center opens next Wednesday, plant lovers for the first time will contend with architecture at the garden's threshold.

Most players don't win the first time they contend at a major, and they certainly don't win with Woods in pursuit.

Arguments to a First Cause in time contend that a continuous temporal regress from one contingent existence to another would never account for the existence of the cosmos, and they conclude that it is more reasonable to accept there was a First Cause than to accept either a regress or the claim that the cosmos just came into being from nothing.

The strike lasted so long partly because the two sides mistrusted each other and partly because G.M. raised the stakes by suing the U.A.W. for the first time since 1937, contending that the strikes violated the national agreement.

But all the positive feedback also means that, for the first time, Tyler has to contend with other people's high expectations, as well as his own.

But for the first time they had to contend with the attentions of their opponents, with the convening of a panel discussion and rally just down the road from the hotel called by the accountability in politics campaign Common Cause.

"This election is going to be seen as the turning point, the first time that Latinos have contended for power in modern Los Angeles history," said Antonio Gonzalez, president of the institute.

It is those lingering memories, even more than Evelyn Waugh's novel, that anyone attempting to turn "Brideshead Revisited" into a feature film for the first time naturally has to contend with.

For the first time the Irish have to contend with the perils of too much rather than too little.