Example sentences for: contra

How can you use “contra” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The new program, headquartered in Oakland, was the result of a merger between San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance (SFNLAF), Community Legal Services in San Jose, and Legal Foundation of Contra Costa.

  • Let's not forget that Toobin, the man who now decries the baleful influence of book deals, first made his mark betraying Iran-Contra special counsel Lawrence Walsh, for whom he worked as a lawyer, by quitting to publish a book about the case before it was even over!

  • Henry Hyde, for example, was quite eloquent back in the Iran-Contra era about how statesmanship and higher principles sometimes require presidents to lie and break the law.

  • As the author of a book on the politics of the Iran-Contra affair (especially the congressional hearings), I was pleased to see Michael Kinsley's "" on impeaching Reagan and Bush.

  • Book -- Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up , by Lawrence E. Walsh;


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