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Example sentences for: contending

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The NYT reports that New York University, contending that its name is being tarnished, has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of a sexually explicit Web site that features a secret camera purportedly spying on scantily- but NYU-logoed-clad women students romping in their dormitory.
Ankara's preferred attitude towards its 12 million Kurds is to deny they exist, in an ethnic sense, by contending they are really something called 'Mountain Turks.
It now comes with two or three mini-essays a week by William Saletan on the order of his "Frame Game" feature: shrewd analysis of how an issue is being framed by the contending interests and who is winning the frame game.
A piece describes the contending capsule designs.
A related essay contending that Americans have run out of tolerance for the "barbaric era" of guns predicts that we could be "rid of the damned things" in five or 10 years.