Sentence examples for makes a contention from inspiring English sources

It makes a contention with which many leaders might concur for their state: "Within Chinese territory the Internet is under the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty.

They make a contention that the rules will be different, but no one is acknowledging exactly whom they can kill or what the rules will be.

(I haven't heard him make such a contention, but perhaps I haven't been listening).

In the process, Ms. Mahar, a financial journalist who was a senior writer for Barron's, makes a devastating case against the contention that the market is almost perfectly efficient -- that prices are the product of immediate, judicious weighing of all available information by rational investors.

In his conclusion, Foos registered his distaste: "Their disregard for animals" and the fate of the Vietcong soldier infuriated him, although he did add a self-serving note pointing out that the friend's lascivious eavesdropping "makes a truism out of my contention that all men are voyeurs to some degree".

To make such a contention in a place that is not a pub is like asserting the primacy of astrological truth at a Cal Tech reunion.

For example, one strategy could be to make a ton of contentions to overwhelm your opponents.

Former President Carlos Menem, another Peronist who espoused a neoliberal model, dropped out of contention, making a runoff unnecessary.

In fact, OAO-2 continued to operate until 1973 and decisively supported Dr. Code's contention, made a week after its launching in 1968, that "a fully automated observatory like this is a good idea; we know it works".

Tommy Martyn, St Helens Irelandd stand-off who has not played since the Challenge Cup final in April, is in contention to make a surprise return against Wigan on Friday night.

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University questioned the need for the research and rejected Dr. Fouchier's contention that making a virus transmissible in the laboratory proves that it can or will happen in nature.