Sentence examples for the book contends from inspiring English sources

Through leverage, the book contends.

Indeed, the book contends that most forms of Occidentalism, even outside the West, borrow heavily from western ideas.

As a result, the book contends, boards have helped create a "distinctly American cult of the C.E.O".

Self-medicating with Dilantin, as the book contends Mr. Nixon did, would not be a good idea, Dr. Jacobsen added.

Much of the nation's well-intended efforts to help the underclass have failed, the book contends, because we have refused to recognize the basic problem: low IQ.

The book contends that governments used a combination of administrative and judicial action, legislation, and a narrative of crisis to construct new forms of labor relations.

After settling in San Francisco, he wrote "Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture," a 1978 book tracing homophobic attitudes to the Middle Ages, when people accused of witchcraft, the book contended, were being persecuted in part for their sexuality, often their homosexuality.

The book contended that, at the turn of the century, subjectivity in poetry had become so rote, so inauthentic, that it had had to be abandoned completely in a sense, killed off and replaced by a more impersonal kind of lyric voice.

Yes, I know erotica should be taken with a grain of salt, but the book contended you could torture someone into homosexuality, and that's a no-no for me, sweetie.

The books contends it is "like Grandma's favorite cookbooks, only more to the point!" Here is where I decided that too much precision can itself be opaque, the same way that one side of an acute angle is in fact oblique: this isn't pointed, but pointless.

Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.