Sentence examples for trying to contend from inspiring English sources

"You keep trying to contend the nomination is over tonight!" McAuliffe replied loudly and happily, pointing and waving his arms.

But, more and more, we see artists trying to contend with images that already exist, either in archives or on the Internet — taking those images and transforming them in some way, or re-contextualizing or re-staging them.

He was a nervous twenty-five-year-old migrant from Fujian Province who had learned the basics of the jianbing business and was trying to contend in the competitive business of breakfast crepes.

The number of nodes trying to contend is equally distributed between medical-and non-medical-oriented nodes.

"The wind's up, it's a fantastic weather forecast we have - there's not a cloud in the sky - personally I'm looking forward to trying to contend and compete," Montgomerie added.

It tells the story of a nation trying to contend for its survival in a hostile world and trying to explain the fact of suffering with reference to the only thing they thought could explain it: the will of Yahweh.

That's the simple truth – and to try to contend otherwise is immoral, Representative Ryan.

The institutions also will try to contend that they were fooled – a tricky argument for a large and prolific investor.

"There are a lot of great individual basketball players that I would love to be alongside of and try to contend for an N.B.A. championship," James said then.

It's easy to throw rocks at a magazine — any magazine — as it tries to contend with overwhelmed readers, digital competition and a fractured culture.

"There's a lot of great individual basketball players that I would love to be alongside of and try to contend for an N.B.A. championship," James said after the game.