Sentence examples for said a contention from inspiring English sources

"The Taxi and Limousine Commission wants to spy on drivers," she said, a contention the commission has denied.

"Over one million citizens of Azerbaijan have been ousted forcibly from the occupied lands and they have been living in hard circumstances in tents," Mr. Aliyev said, a contention that Mr. Kharazian of Armenia dismissed as "propaganda".

"Plus we have excellent customer service," Ms. Ackley-Mazur said, a contention that is hard to refute when a first name and a street are usually all that any of the four customer-care specialists need to find an account.

He said the contention that he has a grand plan to destroy the hunting media is plainly false.

But Dr. Steven Block, a Jason member who is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford, said those contentions were a smoke screen in front of an attempt to place political appointees to a scientific advisory panel.

Mr. Powers said the contention that he was trapped in a web of conflicts was overblown.

Ms. Stillman said that contention was untrue.

Political analysts and opposition leaders said the contention over Mr. Palocci had weakened Ms. Rousseff's sway with Congress and her image as a leader.

A spokesman for Mr. Benson, Keith Herman, said the contentions were baseless.

At a meeting of French feminists over the weekend near Paris, many of those gathered said that the contention that the maid was a liar changed nothing.

A spokesman for the department, Patrick Crimmins, said that the contention that boys might have been sexually abused was preliminary and that no conclusions had been drawn.