Sentence examples for what we contend from inspiring English sources

No doubt, there was stifling patriarchy at play in pre-Colonial Africa like most societies in human history but what we contend with today is a particularly American problem.

The data offer what we contend is a relatively unbiased and 'clean' view of representative 'real world' clinical data, from a wide range of sources indicative of true international clinical experience.

That's what we have to contend with.

They were out of the blocks this spring with a lust for life, proving that juggling the swings and the roundabouts is simply part of what we have to contend with if we set out to shape nature to our own ends.

"I can honestly say that since 2008 to the present, the negativity has outweighed the positivity, as far as what we have to contend with and what opportunities we get," he says.

When I mentioned that I was a Radio 1 DJ he looked impressed; when I mentioned that I also presented a show on the BBC Asian Network a look of pity spread across his face as he said: "Aren't you closing down?" This is what we have had to contend with for the past year.

"We have seen charters that work well, but we still contend what we said in the beginning.

"It describes how we contend with what has most meaning for us.

When we appreciate a painting, Lewis contends, what we contemplate is what this canvas could have in common with some reproduction of it, namely, "that qualitative and abstract essence which is here incorporated, and is theoretically repeatable in some other physical object" (1946, 477).

"We'll contend with what we have right now unless we find ways to improve it".

On the contrary, many theologians and philosophers contend that what we commonly call "secular" is itself a worldview that is born out of a particular history, tradition and narrative — that is, "secular" reason is not reason itself, but simply another kind of reason, just as Christian faith is a kind of reason.