Sentence examples for learning to contend from inspiring English sources

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.

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

(Vintage Contemporaries, $13). A half-dozen members of a Colorado community learn to contend with their problems.

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

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

Over the century, employers had to learn to contend with an ever more diverse employee population, as well as totally new demands for work/family balance.

"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.

I like to think it's the structure's job, generally, to learn how to contend with the writer and not the writer's job to accommodate the existing structure.

For arrogant Harrison Badish Matt Waltonn), that means learning to walk in heels, accepting the responsibility of being a caretaker and contending with a diagnosis of Stage 1 uterine cancer.

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.

Leaders can learn to inspire subordinates and we contend that these are learnable skills, not inborn talents.