Sentence examples for principal contentions from inspiring English sources

"The issues raised in their respective cases were properly raised even though the principal contentions advanced have been rejected".

The attorney for the plaintiffs, former state Attorney General G. Oliver Koppell, said the judge had "sustained our principal contentions".

The principal contentions Harriman went on to make were (1) that the only real trouble with the Yalta agreement was that the Russians didn't abide by them; (2) that the whole purpose of making any concessions to Russia was to assure its entrance, within two or three months after the end of the war in Europe, into the war against Japan.

While it is evident that his principal contentions are substantially related to earlier philosophical developments, claims concerning his relation to the earlier Stoics, or possible philosophical innovations or shifts of emphasis, must be governed by a healthy respect for the fragmentary nature of our sources.

His principal contention was that most mammalian orders and families originated in the Northern Hemisphere, subsequently spreading southward.

We are therefore brought to appellant's principal contention, that the state statute contravenes the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution.

4 In this Court, however, its principal contention has been that the arrest was justified apart from the warrant.

The State's principal contention is that sales by a state, such as the one here involved, are not and cannot be made subject to price control.

The petitioners make several arguments, but their principal contention is that evidence introduced at their trial was secured in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.

The principal contention is that the rule contravenes the commerce clause, because the assessments, while purporting to be on the property of complainants within the state, are in fact levied on their business, which is largely interstate commerce.

The Commission's principal contention to the contrary essentially turns on a play on the word "access". The Nollans' new house, the Commission found, will interfere with "visual access" to the beach.