Sentence examples for legitimate contention from inspiring English sources

"It's still August, but we're in legitimate contention," La Russa said.

Since opening the season with 13 losses in 15 games, the Nets have a 17-14 record against teams that are either assured of a playoff spot or are still in legitimate contention for one.

About the only charge still arguably in legitimate contention involves whether, at Christmastime in 1968, he was a few thousand yards on one side or the other of the border between Cambodia and South Vietnam.

Fine, that's a legitimate contention.

One may safely disdain bien pensant op-eds in Le Monde or the Guardian, but not the legitimate contentions of entire democratic nations and their elected leaders.

Public participation was seen to be discouraged by the requirement of legitimate contentions for each public hearing by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), a three-judge panel of NRC employees made up of two technical experts and one attorney.

It's a team that has played hard enough to deserve a chance to keep playing in October, a team that has outworked all reasonable expectations to climb out of the smoldering injury wreckage and into legitimate championship contention.

Plus, with his clutch hitting (.307 with runners in scoring position), he has Pittsburgh in legitimate playoff contention at 47-43; a place they haven't been since Barry Bonds took them there in 1992.

These are legitimate issues of contention between Obama and his adversaries, but what was so striking about the Federalist event was its legally accusatory nature.

But and this is at the heart of the legitimate (as opposed to bogus) points of contention in the U.S.-China relationship there is no getting around the Communist Party's primacy.

The court also backed France's contention that the ban was legitimate because it was "proportionate to the aim pursued, namely the preservation of the conditions of 'living together".