Sentence examples for opening contention from inspiring English sources

And from her opening contention, that "Nabokov's journey from obscure Russian émigré writer to the author of American and world literary classics is essential for understanding Russia's past, its present and its future", she wears her learning lightly.

In view of the film's opening contention of being a true story, the care that Mr. Costa-Gavras takes not ever to identify Chile by name is a bit disingenuous.

Appellants raised the Commerce Clause and Supremacy Clause contentions in their "pretrial memo of points and authorities" and in their opening argument at trial.

Since women have such a limited role in Saudi public life, however, it is somewhat surprising that it is their rights that have become a matter of open contention in a society that keeps most debate hidden.

Graeme McDowell kept himself in Open contention with a one-under-par 69 in Friday's second round at Royal Lytham.

Budget cuts, layoffs and open contention on the board over Deitch's creative choices ensued.

You must decide whether solving the problem is worth the headache of legal fees and open contention with your neighbors.

Earlier the PSTP contribution from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, "A Confederacy of Heretics," opened amid contentions from SCI-Arc's own director, architect Eric Owen Moss, that the show was timid and disappointing.

For, indeed, there was from the beginning a sort of concealed split, or seam, as it might be in a piece of iron, marking the different popular and aristocratical tendencies; but the open rivalry and contention of these two opponents made the gash deep, and severed the city into the two parties of the people and the few.

In recent years, the disparity between the large- and small-market teams has grown even wider, with many clubs seemingly out of contention on opening day.

A late flurry of four wickets with the second new ball, including a burst of three in 14 balls by James Anderson, dragged England back into contention on the opening day of the first Test against West Indies after Joe Root controversially omitted Stuart Broad from his starting line-up.