Sentence examples for wasn't contending from inspiring English sources

I wondered if journalists would express regret that someone like Romney wasn't contending.

Mr. Wales said the agency wasn't contending that Whole Foods and Wild Oats did not have any other competition.

I wasn't contending against chauvinism, like George Eliot Mary Anne Evanss), or against puritanism, like Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos), or political repression, like Mo Yan Guan Moyee); the only thing I was struggling against was my own tendency toward self-defeat.

Dr. Sobel said whatever the evolutionary origin of emotional tears, he was not contending that his findings had modern romantic applications.

Mr. Santos stressed on Tuesday in arguments outside the jury's presence that the defense was not contending that Miss Aparo's relationship with her mother had led her to participate in the death.

(We chose to see a psychologist who worked on sexuality, because we weren't contending with physical dysfunction).

Americans aren't contending in former strongholds skeleton, short-track skating and ski jumping, with former ski jumping world champion Sarah Hendrickson out for the season with a knee injury.

The main verb is was, not contend, say or think.

Newton is: the main verb of the relative clause is was, not contend.

In Towne v. Eisner it was not contended that any construction of the statute could make it narrower than the constitutional grant; rather the contrary.

The meager haul this year does not surprise Russians because so many of their greatest contenders are not contending.