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Example sentences for: contention

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Incidentally, notes the WSJ , although in his present role Starr has fought hard against the administration's contention that executive privilege shields some key Clinton advisors as well as Hillary, as a U.S. appeals court judge, Starr "seldom rebuffed an assertion of privilege."
The agreement sidesteps the most prickly points of contention, including the status of Jerusalem, border issues, and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
McNamara didn't do that; he simply embraced the left's contention that the war was unwinnable and America shouldn't have intervened.
Still, the discovery would seem to knock from contention the theory that mechanical failure caused the airplane to explode on July 17, killing all 230 aboard ." (Emphasis added.)
(Evidence supporting the contention that Clinton groped Kathleen Willey--his other alleged victim of harassment--is much shakier.