A slow-healing quad injury happened, a season of supposed, if improbable, contention slipping away with Leonard appearing in only nine games before distancing himself from increasingly agitated teammates and with a bewildered front office at his mercy.
Mediate was never supposed to be in contention at the 108th Open, and when he started Sunday two strokes behind the surging Woods, not many gave him a chance to be part of the championship conversation four hours later.
The Republicans as always are interesting, though I'm struck by the weakness of the Republican field, notwithstanding the widespread contention that it is supposed to be better than that of 2012.
This Argentina team, with eight players over the age of 30, was supposed to be too old for true contention, on the wrong end of a last hurrah.
Second, as for resource reservation, a medium access protocol is supposed to be able to resolve media contention and support resource reservation at the MAC layer.
Kidd's arrival in a February trade was supposed to lift the Mavericks back to championship contention.
Their acquisition of Kidd in February 2008 was supposed to put the Mavericks back in title contention, but it appears they will come up short again.
In one fell swoop, Layden was supposed to return a small, aging team to playoff contention.
"I'll still resist convention; / Yes, I will disprove the professorial contention / That a serious man is not supposed to be funny".
Suppose what is under contention is a mental state like pain.
Of course, the argument to sustain the contention is that, if the statute embraces cases such as are supposed, it is void as to them, and, if so void, is void in toto.
