Sentence examples for learn to contend from inspiring English sources

A half-dozen members of a Colorado community learn to contend with their problems.

A half-dozen members of a high-plains Colorado community learn to contend with the variety of problems that face them.

But since then she has had to learn to contend with a new and different kind of curve ball – finishing runner-up.

After serving in the Union Army, Richard Etheridge, born a slave, returned to North Carolina's Outer Banks, where he had grown up learning to contend with the unusually treacherous waters of that stretch of the Atlantic Coast.

"We'll take any opportunity to talk about Obamacare and the Medicare cuts that were included in it," said Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said that Republicans had learned how to contend with the issue after having debated it for more than two years already.

As educator-philosopher Paulo Freire contended, students must learn to see school as a place to critically think about their social positions to be emancipated from them.

We need to learn to speak with a voice which seriously contends against evil and injustice without pandering to partisan politics.

The authors contend that to reach the Yoot demographic, marketers must learn to create "a whole new language" for selling products and services that taps into the Yoots' fondness for customizing and personalizing messages.

In his book "Your Intelligence Makeover" (Free Press, $22.95), he contends that no matter our genetic gifts, we can all learn to be smarter and more effective.

Common sense tells us that there is no surer recipe for the child to lag behind in learning than having to contend with the strain and disruption of a broken, dysfunctional family, where the parent or parents are so focused on themselves and their needs that they have little emotional energy to spare for the child's needs.

That is the kind of profound thing that we all have to learn and contend with as human beings".