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Example sentences for: contended

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Judge Thornton's ruling, she contended, will "establish a barrier that stops abused women from seeking protection of the courts."
Wolfowitz contended that the odds were "far more" than 1 in 10, citing Saddam's praise for the attack, his long record of involvement in terrorism, and theories that Ramzi Yousef was an Iraqi agent and Iraq was behind the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
The Washington Post relayed that Wolf "has long contended that earth tones are more 'reassuring' to audiences' " and that she is "the person behind Gore's recent wardrobe change."
Titled Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution , the book contended that the molecular machinery of living things works too well to have been produced by chance alone.
No evidence was submitted to the Commission that either the agricultural community or individual growers have ever previously contended that an LSC recipient was acting improperly by representing an alien who was out of the United States.