Sentence examples for what she contends from inspiring English sources

She details in her writings what she contends are Washington's efforts to destabilize Venezuela's government, interpreting documents obtained in the United States through the Freedom of Information Act.

Geraldine Ferraro, who has been making headlines for months over what she contends is the sexist treatment of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in this presidential cycle, has penned an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe.

By calling members of Mr. Milosevic's inner circle, Ms. Del Ponte apparently intends to show what she contends was his real aim: a conspiracy to create a nation patched together from land occupied by Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.

*** In Immortal Egypt (BBC2) the engaging and highly enthusiastic Professor Joann Fletcher explored what she contends is the "world's greatest civilisation", beginning well before anyone thought to commemorate himself by throwing up a pyramid.

She finds the story of the glass slipper — the arrival of a man who represents the "perfect fit" — to be as pernicious as the limitations of the glass ceiling: it leaves many women feeling responsible for the failure of their lives to conform to what she contends is an impossible standard.

"This is an excellent beginning," said Connie Wynne, whose son Alexander died last year of complications that stemmed from what she contends was a botched delivery by a doctor with a history of malpractice judgments and settlements and state disciplinary actions.

As she talked about what she contended was government expansion under the new health care law, she declared, "I want a waiver from the last two years of President Obama!" Beyond her effect on any potential Palin candidacy, Ms. Bachmann's entry into the race could have implications for other candidates seeking to appeal to the same slices of the electorate.

What typically happens, she contended, is that "developers get together in a back room and come to an agreement about what they think is best for a community".

This writer, regurgitating Whitney's most recent spin, contends that what she really meant was that doomsday would only begin sometime this year and that all those defaults would occur over time, which seems less ridiculous.

Professor Clark told me that one of her most vexing challenges was contending with what she called the "fully aware narcissism" of young Americans abroad.

Walker also had to contend with what she perceived to be her mother's own ambivalence towards having a child.