Sentence examples for was contended from inspiring English sources
verb
To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
It was contended that this section delegated to the President both legislative and treaty-making powers and was unconstitutional.
The first cause argument, it was contended, suffers from two fatal weaknesses.
The paranoia implicit in Mc Carthyism and Goldwaterism, it was contended, sprang from nativism and demagoguery rather than from egalitarianism.
329, 3 L.Ed.2d 327 (1959), where it was contended that the information given by an informant to an officer was inadmissible because it was hearsay.
An important centre in the Middle Ages, it was contended for by the Angevin dynasty (House of Anjou) and Aragonese and later passed to the Kingdom of Naples.
Flanagan not only nearly won her first marathon, she also won her first United States women's marathon championship, which was contended in the race.
And even before the recent power failure, Metro-North was contending with embarrassing headlines.
Ecgfrith was contending with other challenges to his overlordship.
They are to be contended with".
Bonerman26 exists; his vileness should be contended with.
It is contended that, in the UK and by extension elsewhere.
