Sentence examples for that will contend from inspiring English sources

But the pressure remains to pick a team that will contend.

"We still think that we're a team that will contend and make the playoffs," he said.

When those papers are filed, regulators said, they will lay out the e-mail messages and other documents that they will contend show that research was tainted by a desire to reap investment banking fees.

The Islanders, who were said to have lost $20 million last year, are hoping that Isbister will contend for a spot on the No. 1 line, whose center is Aleksei Yashin.

Among the most pressing issues that Rauner will contend with over the next four years is Illinois' staggering, worst-in-the-nation public pension debt.

He will be buoyed by goodwill from many quarters, sufficient, at least initially, to outweigh the fact that the more sceptical will contend that Ince is over-promoted and underqualified.

Defense lawyers believe that at some point, prosecutors will contend that the officers should have recognized their mistake before all 41 shots were fired and stopped firing.

Street Lighting will make the case that street lights prevent crime; Sanitation will argue that dilapidated neighborhoods breed crime; Planning will contend that growth creates jobs and jobs reduce crime.

Also as in 2012, there is reason to believe that the Tide will contend for another B.C.S. championship.

And the conviction that the team will contend for a championship, ushering in every Knicks season for a decade, has withered into just a dream.

That the team will contend for postseason relevance has become a foregone conclusion under Belichick, the longest-tenured head coach in the league, as assured as the change of foliage that signals the start of the season.