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Example sentences for: contention

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It is difficult for the nonspecialist reader (like me) to assess the validity of his arguments, which are based on his contention that the language (and its congeners) were carried along by the spread of nomad pastoralism.
Then the full 9th Circuit overruled its own justices in the state's favor, agreeing with the state's contention that the clients weren't harmed because the interest wouldn't be earned otherwise.
(Herrnstein and Murray mostly leave the evidence for this, their central contention, to footnotes.
Even critics who can't stand the film are impressed by Carrey: "His performance is a brilliant, almost terrifying impersonation" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' main bone of contention is that the film makes no attempt to explain the source of his eccentricity: "Mr.
In the Weekly Standard , Wallace biographer Stephan Lesher says the film reduces the governor's appeal to simple racism--a contention "every bit as anti-intellectual and demagogic as Wallace's own ...