Examples of contend

• As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.

• The best-known response to the ideal-world thesis contends that proposition (2) is not logically necessary.

• What is important, he contends, is jurisdictional control.

• The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.

• The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.

• She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.

• In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.