Sentence examples for had initially contended from inspiring English sources

Mr. Grimm had initially contended that the vandalism, which occurred on Saturday night on a busy thoroughfare in New Dorp, was "a politically motivated crime" and called it "an assault on democracy".

In her suit, filed in California Superior Court, Ms. Stillman contended that Mr. Burnett steered two contestants to vote to eliminate her rather than another participant, Rudy Boesch, as they had initially intended.

This had initially puzzled me.

Mr Rudd had initially insisted he would stand in the leadership ballot, but the BBC's Nick Bryant in Australia said that by Thursday morning Mr Rudd could not even muster enough support to contend the ballot.

He initially contended that Paul had made aggressive sexual advances to him, prompting him to stab Paul in self-defense.

When Jack Ryan sued to have some of the divorce records sealed, her lawyer initially contended that the maneuver was an effort to suppress information that might damage his future political career.

Prosecutors initially contended that disclosure of Mr. Butler's status as an informant would not have changed the outcome of the trial and sought to have Mr. Pratt returned to prison.

While some experts initially contended that only three countries -- the United States, the former Soviet Union and Iraq -- were known to have made the high-grade anthrax powder that floats easily in the air, many others disagreed.

EADS had contended that its plane was bigger and better.

'The masculine-feminine dynamic also has racial form', Gordon (2000, 125) has contended.

But they also had to contend with relentless racism.