I contend that if you draw your weapon, you're better off not having hearing aids than not having eyeglasses".
"I contend that, if we can do this worldwide, we'll have a more peaceful world, because people serving together are more tolerant of people different from themselves," she says.
I contend that if, in the George W. Bush vs. John Kerry face-off, Kerry's advisers had spun him as more Abe Lincoln-like, rather than trying to compete for good-ole-boy status, Kerry would have been much better positioned.
I contend that if we are confused about diet and health, it's the endless parade of self-proclaimed renegade geniuses perceiving the iconoclastic truth to which the rest of us mere mortals are blind who have made us so.
I contend that, if domesticated species do not undergo speciation, it is because the process of selection is carried out by the breeders, and not by natural selection.
As for myself, I contend that, if there is so much speciation, i.e. mechanisms, be they genetic or not, causing reproductive isolation evolving everywhere, all the time, it must be because there can be basic, fundamental selective advantages for subgroups of individuals to breed preferentially among one another, and reduce their capacity to hybridize with the rest of the population.
I contend that, if Dictyostelids have been able to evolve this social lifestyle, it is because of their capacity to sporulate and disseminate, and hence for single individuals (or at most a handful of amoebae originating from the same fruiting body) to colonise new isolated niches.
He added, "I contend that the loss, if any, is minimal".
Hopefully I'll be able to stick with that and be consistently contending because I know if I am contending I can win.
"I know I can contend if my game's on out there".
