Sentence examples for found themselves contending from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately they also found themselves contending with Wales and Australia in their pool.

It began in 1990, when many workers in a building occupied by the State Department of Taxation and Finance in Albany found themselves contending with skin rashes.

The breakdown of centralized authority within the Delhi sultanate and the consequent rise of provincial kingdoms meant that new rivalries could develop on a regional basis, and the Bahmanī sultans found themselves contending with two of the successor states of the Delhi sultanate in an arena where their expansionist ambitions had some chance of success.

(New York's African-American community, and Northern desegregation activists generally, now found themselves contending with the problem of white flight, however).

All these historians find themselves contending with the issues of historical judgment: how much can you blame the people of the past for getting something wrong when they could not have known it was going to go so wrong?

He said: "They find themselves contending withcuts to pay and conditions of service, increased stress and pressures, falling numbers of police officers, low morale and the privatisation of essential police functions.

The sympathy he conjures for them stems less from their personalities (the hero of "Kite Runner" was an unlikable coward who failed to come to the aid of his best friend) than from the circumstances in which they find themselves: contending with unhappy families, abusive marriages, oppressive governments and repressive cultural mores.

By contrast, most bad guys in big summer blockbusters find themselves contending with a tornado of special effects, leaving actors even as brilliant as Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was in Star Trek Into Darkness, with little to do but race around with their quiff blowing in the wind.

But since September, pastors nationwide say they have seen such a burst of new interest that they find themselves contending with powerful conflicting emotions — deep empathy and quiet excitement — as they re-encounter an old piece of religious lore: Bad times are good for evangelical churches.

After the suit was filed, Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said he planned to join the suit and thought that a "coalition of states" would also jump on the legal bandwagon — a potentially grim development for the rating agencies, which could find themselves contending with a phalanx of state officials like the one that aimed at big tobacco in the 1990s.

"Companies that fall within the CFPB jurisdiction and even some that don't can find themselves contending with a bureau that very much is set on leaving its stamp before either Congress or a new president potentially changes its makeup or structure," he said.