Sentence examples for no longer contend from inspiring English sources

Critics no longer contend that fluoridation is a Communist plot.

Mr. Sweeney said that corporate lobbyists would find it harder to attack fast elections than card check because business could no longer contend that labor wanted to eliminate "sacrosanct secret-ballot elections".

Elias was no longer contending that the precincts should not have been split, but that some voters within those precincts received the wrong ballot.

Although he no longer contends that the tax is unconstitutional — a misguided notion, he says, that led to his misguided actions of 19 years ago — he does believe the tax is grossly misapplied.

Today, the minister, Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, was no longer contending, as he did on Saturday, that the Americans had been routed from the airport by an Iraqi counterattack, and divided into isolated pockets where they were surrendering en masse.

Mr. Kerry no longer contends, as he did for months after July's military coup, that the Sissi regime is "restoring democracy". But the administration argues that it should still support narrow U.S. security interests in Egypt, including maintaining the security of the Suez Canal and combatting al-Qaeda-linked militants operating in the Sinai Peninsula.

Bauer no longer contended that history represents an unfolding dialectic of self-consciousness.

As in the third stage, the cyclists departed in two groups, and Laeser was in the second group because he was no longer contending for the general classification.

Congressional leaders say that change means the President no longer can contend he has been prevented from returning a bill to Congress when it is not in session.

In his complaint, Mr. Hudson, who is no longer married, contends that because Goldman accepted his entertaining clients at strip clubs he believed an inter-office romance would be tolerated.

But Bagwell no longer has to contend with the Astrodome.