Sentence examples for which is contending from inspiring English sources

A bankruptcy filing of Hawker would be another loss for Goldman's buyout arm, which is contending with a number of troubled investments.

Still, strong Web sales are unlikely to bail out the retail industry, which is contending with a recession and a sharp decline in consumers' wealth.

REUTERS Man Groupup May Be Cut From Index  |  The world's largest publicly traded hedge fund, which is contending with a flagging share price, could be removed this week from an index of London's top stocks, The Telegraph reports.

Knight Ridder, which is contending along with the rest of the industry with falling circulation and tepid revenue growth, said it had hired Goldman Sachs to help it evaluate "strategic alternatives".

Let denote the number of active STA which is contending in an AP's BSS, and is the probability that an STA transmits in a given time slot.

The settlement provided welcome relief for Affymetrix, which is contending with an embarrassing, but unrelated, problem: Some of its arrays have contained scrambled mouse-DNA data, as the company first disclosed in a 7 March notice to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SECC).

Yet Brown's far-reaching connections had assured him that Wallace would not disrupt his team, which was contending for the Eastern Conference crown.

During the 18th century the three Laotian states, which were continually at loggerheads, tried to maintain their independence from the Myanmar and Siamese kingdoms, both of which were contending for control of the western segment of continental Southeast Asia.

The major labels, which are contending with an alarming decline in the sale of compact discs, have also signed on with other ad-supported music services, such as social network imeem and Ruckus, an ad-supported download site aimed at college students.

Flanagan not only nearly won her first marathon, she also won her first United States women's marathon championship, which was contended in the race.

Only the American State Department, which also is contending with financial problems because of budget cutbacks, is larger.