Sentence examples for well contend from inspiring English sources

If eventually charged, he may well contend that the cash was for donations to the charity, not bribes for himself.

Supporters of the law may well contend that businesses should not hire undocumented workers, or that the federal government and civil-rights groups ought not sue the state.

While many critics might well contend that Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 campaign gave the lie to any ameliorative impact of the Lieber Code on the Union Army, his actions might better be viewed as, in John Witt's analysis, "the practical embodiment of the code's unsettling critique of the orthodox laws of war".

He's right that the movie, in its brief run in New York and a dozen other cities, received the sort of enthusiastic reviews (including from me, in the magazine and on this blog) that suggests it might well contend (as it deserves to do) for awards from critics' groups.

During the decade for sustainable development http://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development 2005 2014, UNESCO developed a coherent curriculum that could well contend for being a major component of any national curriculum http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/.unesco.org/education/tlsf/

"Things ain't going the other way, so we might as well contend with it.

Privacy advocates chimed in as well, contending that the space agency would not be able to protect the confidential details it was collecting.

Hezbollah seized three Israeli soldiers on border patrol last week, and had taken another Israeli captive as well, contending that he is an Israeli agent.

Other medical organizations have expressed opposition as well, contending that these accommodations are, in effect, unleashing an underqualified group of doctors on an unsuspecting public.

If everything were really going well, they contend, then banks would be spewing out cash, not raising more of it.

Some club operators say that theirs is a tough niche -- one that requires them to enforce under-age drinking laws, curfews and other ordinances, as well as contend with nervous parents.