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How To Use contention In A Sentence

• He got back into contention with a level par 71 containing six birdies, four bogeys and one double bogey.
• I mean, who doesn't want a product that is easier to use, has less locking contention, minimizes storage administration, makes access to administrative data easier, and so on?
• Now, our opposites do far overmatch us and overstride us in contention; for, 1. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• It is Faur's contention that the Kabbalist rabbis, seen through the filter of the vertical model, transform the Talmudic tradition -- based on a pluralistic dialogue and formal legal strictures -- into an occult hermeticism creating a Judaism that is sealed off from critical reading and rational science. David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist
• We conclude that the quantitative and qualitative evidence supports the contention that increases in fluency are attributable mainly to increases in the degree of proceduralization of knowledge.
• A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.
• The contention is that the mind is a muscle that is exercised by bridge and chess. Times, Sunday Times
• Clifford's contention about the reprehensibility of believing without or against the evidence still stands.
• They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
• In any case there is much common ground between the two schools: each can learn from the other, and those professors of asepticism who have acknowledged their debt to Lister have been wiser than those who have made contention their aim. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies