0 present participle of contend
1 to compete in order to win something:
There are three world-class tennis players contending for this title.
He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
About 60 other parties also joined the electoral contest, both within and outside the major contending alliances.
This category encompasses two hypotheses, both contending that some regions can draw on symbolic resources grounded in particular historical experiences that facilitate separatist claims.
For some, this will limit the book's ability to analyse the conflict's political economy and its structuration in culture and contending forms of power.
These results formalize and clarify a set of contending intuitions about function that researchers have had.
In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
Discussions are civilized affairs: verbal interchanges between contending parties reveal that a mistake has been made that needs to be corrected.
Situations of perceived emergency can induce contending political groups to agree upon unpopular, painful measures.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
