Mr. Pellegrini, fixing an unblinking stare at his questioner, instead contended that he used those words "under pressure" from the S.E.C. and its "hostile questions".
He moved away from the drug-fuelled erotic game described by his colleagues in earlier proceedings and instead contended that the outburst of violence was rooted in arguments between roommates Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher about cleanliness - triggered by a toilet left unflushed by Rudy Guede.
Would they diminish the seriousness of these acts and argue that what Woods had done was "not that big of a deal?" Or would they instead contend that their support of Woods was tied to the quality of his golf game and not his personal life?
He repeatedly denied any such conflict, instead contending that his peers didn't like his questioning of certain district contracting policies.
In fact, it was for this reason that, when I was in uniform, I argued against the concept of "network-centric warfare" — put forward in the late 1990s — and instead contended that a better formulation would be network-enabled, leadership-centric warfare.
The writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb contends that instead of giving advice on managing risk, you "should be in a retirement home doing sudoku".
But Lloyd Gerard of Lloyd's, an antiques shop on Main Street in Eastport, contends that instead of bringing people to the area, the historic districts will drive them away.
He contends that instead of selling a "product" at the outset, emerging companies need to find a customer who will pay a lot of money to the company to solve a critical problem for him.
The complaint also contends that instead of making investments, Mr. Follieri used the money he raised to indulge in a lifestyle that included the perquisites of the wealthy: a Manhattan apartment overlooking Rockefeller Center, for which he paid $37,000 a month; a house call by his doctor that cost $30,000 and medical expenses for his parents and his girlfriend at the time.
Although Vakoch supports previous efforts at such communication, he contends that instead of just sending a few of the chemical notations for compounds key to life here on Earth, we should include the whole Periodic Table of the Elements.
