Sentence examples for true contention from inspiring English sources

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.

Philadelphia hasn't run the regular-season gauntlet to perfection, but it has built a compelling case for true contention with strong performances against teams of every caliber.

McEnroe is often asked to detail his preference between placing several Americans into the top 100 on both tours, or boosting a handful into true contention for Grand Slam titles.

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully-true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together?

To free agents: that this is a team that is a piece or two away from true championship contention.

For Latin to be rescued from oblivion (to which even the Church has relegated it), there would have to be general agreement on its absolute value and desirability — not just some faint persuasion of its utility, such as the argument now put forward that it can help teach ghetto children English, however true that contention may be.

For Latin to be rescued from oblivion (to which even the Church has relegated it), there would have to be general agreement on its absolute value and desirability not just some faint persuasion of its utility, such as the argument now put forward that it can help teach ghetto children English, however true that contention may be.

The game's true moment of contention and intrigue came when the mist descended on Glenn Whelan.

If this is the true point of contention, why not simply design a heavier running prosthetic, one that models the accurate weight of a human leg, and end the debate?

What was weird about it wasn't his claim that Zellweger looks different these days, which is true, but his contention that her appeal has always been that she looks "ordinary".

If true, Hubbard's contention would seem to suggest that the CIA's unwillingness to release Mitchell and Jessen from their obligation to secrecy may be motivated by the agency's desire to conceal the role it played in devising the program.