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Example sentences for: contends

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Sulloway contends that firstborn children are moralistic, eager to please their parents, and easily angered.
The mail-order business already contends with this problem, and these retailers cope with returns that sometimes go over one-quarter the value of sales in a given year.
A story about the development of HDTV contends that, contrary to laissez-faire dogma, government regulation can help private industry make better products.
Buchanan contends that Nazi Germany posed no real threat to America's vital interests after 1940 and that Franklin Roosevelt either bumbled his way into the world war or deceitfully conspired to get the country embroiled in a war it need not have fought.
A piece pegged to the global-warming summit contends that the United States can save $300 billion a year and reduce greenhouse gases by using energy more efficiently.