All three of them are making the contention that it is in a certain kind of interest on the part of human beings to contract into a certain sort of social structure even if in so doing they give up some of their freedom.
The same answer must be made to the contention that is based upon the serious economic situation which led to the passage of the Recovery Act the fall in prices, the decline in wages and employment, and the curtailment of the market for commodities.
"We find nothing in the various strands of the claimants' case, whether taken individually or cumulatively, to make good the contention that the policing of the royal wedding involved an unlawful policy or practice, with an impermissibly low threshold of tolerance for public protests," said the judges.
Additionally, while the earlier, all-female musical number "Honor to Us All" "functions as an account of the constructedness of female gender," "I'll Make a Man Out of You" "juxtaposes and makes explicit the contention that gender is a cultural product," according to Johnson Cheu, author of Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability.
In fact, research has made plausible the contention that the autochthonous inhabitants of the region were a mixture of pre-Germanic and Germanic population groups who in the course of time had converged on the main deltaic region of western Europe.
One does wonder what the magazine's readers made of the contention that Donald Rumsfeld's Hobbesian pragmatism is to be preferred to Bill Clinton's impulsiveness, that "in intellectual terms atheism is a Victorian fossil", or the baleful but gracefully expressed reminder that "the human animal is itself only a passing tremor in the life of the planet".
Implicit in the idea of making globalisation work is the contention that it is not working at the moment.
According to Ian Katz of Bloomberg News, some of the things she said out loud that made sense included the contention that big banks should be "tasked with the job of deciding how best to split themselves up" and that "there should be rules imposed, perhaps something like Glass-Steagall".
Those in the diet industry and many nutritionists make their living on the contention that people can readily choose to reduce calories and to stay thin.
Roger Carasso Los Angeles, Nov. 7 To the Editor: Robert H. Frank makes the following statement: "The contention that a flat tax would be simpler because it involves only a single rate is flatly wrong.
