Sentence examples for they were contending from inspiring English sources

(If you look at the great unbeautiful heroines of literature, whatever they were contending with, they insisted on the right to love themselves).

But never, until now, has he faced the Mets, the team that surely could have used him when they were contending in 2005 and 2006 and collapsing in 2007 and 2008.

"They're contending, and they have five young guys in their rotation," Cashman said.

But they are contending that Sterling has faced similar claims in his real estate business.

They are filled with the confidence of miraculous faith, though they realize they are contending with cultural impediments.

Sometimes they're in love – at others they're contending with what the media thinks women should be.

Now, among other challenges, they are contending with rising labor costs for nurses, pharmacists and other workers in short supply.

More than 30 of the 100 firms anointed by the Boston Consulting Group in January because they are "contending for global leadership" are Chinese.

In Britain, they are contending with the online operations of other big booksellers, such as WH Smith, Waterstone's and Blackwell's.

They are contending well ahead of schedule, having used 18 rookies, but their ballpark plans are snarled in a territorial dispute with the San Francisco Giants.

As one political analyst put it, wickedly, Livni and Mofaz look like they're contending for "the post of captain of the Costa Concordia".