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The attorneys contended that the city has an obligation to pay the tenants for damages they have sustained by being evicted for property that will be used for a public purpose.
(vii) Normal infection environment: As we have contended, a major benefit of this approach in viral reverse genetics is that one can start with standard wild type virus (or even a relatively uncharacterized field isolate) with no requirements of recombinant expression, and thus, the cellular milieu is only minimally perturbed, if at all.
Santorum himself has contended that partial-birth abortions are never necessary--from the patient's point of view.
In Losing Ground (1984), the work that made him famous, he contended that government anti-poverty programs had done much to create the underclass.
Though he hasn't screwed up in any profound way, Apple contended, Clinton will be remembered as a middling president, at best.