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Example sentences for: contending

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Denby even goes against the conventional wisdom, contending that "the Gere-Roberts connection is still alive."
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.
President Clinton offered us a perceptive analysis of Saudi Arabia, contending that fundamentally friendly rulers have been constrained by their desire to preserve the status quo.
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.
In a Slate "" last year, Crook claimed that we were contending that the value of a company is the present value of its stream of future earnings and that such a contention was false.