Sentence examples for were contending with from inspiring English sources

There was an impression that not only those in the stands were contending with hangovers.

More importantly, when you look more closely at the data, the elderly Danes were contending with their share of health problems and dependence, as Dr. Christensen acknowledged.

Werewolves emerged in folklore in medieval Germany at times when a poor harvest meant that both humans and animals were contending with rumbling stomachs.

And I wanted to write about someone who refused to take care of herself, and how her family members were contending with it.

(If you look at the great unbeautiful heroines of literature, whatever they were contending with, they insisted on the right to love themselves).

In November, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of the security agency, MI5, said her overstretched spooks were contending with some 200 terrorist networks involving about 1,600 suspects, and investigating up to 30 high-priority plots.

Halliburton, meanwhile, is contending with two new scandals.

It has been contending with competition from Japan.

Now that they are healthy, the team is contending with another matter: keeping them happy.

Meanwhile, police officers are contending with scattered cases of fuel theft from filling stations.

And even before the recent power failure, Metro-North was contending with embarrassing headlines.