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
If one was tempted to conclude that he was at his best when working on a smaller budget, in monochrome, and in the English context, his next three films challenged such a contention.
Finally, in the theory that the clan totem is the natural development of the individual totem, the contention of some scholars that the term totem should be reserved to the clan totem is of little moment. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
In view of their Lordships, however, such a contention is not maintainable.
The Hatters had lost two of their previous three league games and were in danger of slipping out of contention. The Sun
The landlords disputed that contention on two grounds. Times, Sunday Times
Such reveries are meant to support Joe's contention that he has less trouble relating to men than he does women.
On the basis of his contention that the true value of the property was between £70,000 and £80,000, Mr Ross counterclaimed for £29,000.
So the only area of contention is the area of where we are investigating behaviour that may be unlawful.
There are many, many arguments to consider and contentions to examine.
In our view there are two conclusive answers to these contentions.
I strongly oppose that contention.
Despite all these, Jim gained 541 first-preference votes and reached the quota when his running mate, Roberts, dropped out of contention.
Their main bone of contention is the qualification process, which they consider manifestly unfair and skewed against them. Times, Sunday Times
With each one, Apple strengthened its contention that the mission of Macintosh was finally on course.
Roth says he was immediately drawn to the novel, which had a history of contention all its own.
* Thus, in "The state was made, under the pretence of serving it, in reality the prize of their contention to each of these opposite parties," it is unpleasantly doubtful whether the writer means (1) _state_ or (2) _parties_ to be emphatic. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
The initial bone of contention was the question of the terms on which sympathizers should be admitted to the Party.
With Peace in their mouths and contention in their hearts, the "unterrified" resolved upon a great meeting, to be held in Peoria. The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details
Her main contention is that doctors should do more to encourage healthy eating.
Three penalties by Hobbs kept Bradford firmly in contention and another soon after the interval levelled the scores at 8-8.
Another area of much contention is the desired level of channel control sought by the manufacturer.
The high-pitched wail made by the cars at speed is another bone of contention. Times, Sunday Times
his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau
Sammy doesn't discount that contention, but he advances another theory.
The main bone of contention is the temperature level of the air-conditioners.
There is no factual basis to support that contention. Times, Sunday Times
The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country.
The contention continued for four years and the underlying reason for it was pique.
For the reasons set out in the judgment of Staughton L.J. I would reject that contention.
One area of contention is the availability of nursery care.
It is not my contention that information must needs run on a parallel track to entertainment.
He repeated his earlier contention that the country has enough food to feed its people.
Therefore I do not doubt that he feignedly reproved his son, from a desire to appease contention. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
A common area of contention is the time the new home will be complete.
Mark Cronje and Robert Paisley are fourth in the title chase and will now be expected to support Gemmell's title aspirations while, in the VW camp, Hergen Fekken and Pierre Arries, double defending champions and winners of the opening round in kwaZulu-Natal - are out of title contention after recording three consecutive non-finishes. Motoring
Overall, the environment promotes continued interservice rivalry, but the delineator between productive competition and unhealthy contention is ethics.
Mr Zhao's fate, and by association his legacy, have become a big bone of contention in the leadership.
Some economic data also support the contention that things are on the cusp of getting better. Times, Sunday Times
Sale Sharks have gradually worked their way up the table into a position of strength and contention. Times, Sunday Times
We prefer the view taken by Dr. Brown to that of Dr. Stick - that the assertion that chiropractic strengthens the immune system is not a fact, but a contention.
As for the contention that this conduct is already illegal, good luck prosecuting it. The Volokh Conspiracy » Big First Amendment win in United States v. Stevens
Judge Maddocks rejected that contention and dismissed the appellant's appeal.
It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only.
At its heart lie the contention that ‘Bedouin society never changes’ and the bipolar division of history into pre-modern and modern communities.
There are others which are not in medal contention. Times, Sunday Times
That was the contention of the political philosopher, and it's a lesson of more general application.
The race sprung to life at the second flight when leader Westender refused to jump the hurdle and also knocked the favourite Rule Supreme out of contention.
He deserves every bit of snark he gets for this ridiculous contention, but I still have a question: why?
The contention is that she is uniquely qualified to talk about the suitability of transwomen for positions in sexual assault counselling.
the real bone of contention, as you know, is money
The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
Fine-grained tasks in conventional thread pools can also generate excessive contention for the task queue shared among all workers.
‘Will you then,’ he addresses his opponents, ‘give up your contention against the Spirit, that He must be altogether begotten, or else cannot be consubstantial, or God?’
However that contention does not accord with the facts.
The England manager has Leicester's Dan Cole as his established tighthead, with Davey Wilson of Bath in contention, while Gloucester's Paul Doran-Jones, rated by both Vickery and the England management, understudies Sale's Andrew Sheridan at loosehead. 'Enough's enough' says England and Wasps iron man Phil Vickery
As to the legal contention that the right of police control is a natural corollary to the right of exterritoriality, it must be said that ever since the grant of consular jurisdiction to foreigners by China in her first treaties, this is the first time that such a claim has been seriously put forward. The Fight for the Republic in China
His levels of performance are improving and he could be in contention before you know it. jillyh, witney says ... Undefined
Rule XXI. is against unevangelical contention for places at table, and Rule XXII. regulates the monastic habit. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The original tribunal of inquiry rejected Hanley's contention that the plane's failure was caused by water or other agents in the engines.
The hostess, seeing her husband re-enter into contentions and brabbles, raised a new cry, whose burden was borne by her daughter and Maritornes, asking succour of Heaven and those that were present. The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures
Kriston Capps, long-time koala afficionado, submits this video to support his contention that the koala is the cutest animal of them all: Matthew Yglesias » Friday Cute Animal Blogging
Earth's curve is a big contention for flat-Earthers, who argue that if the earth was round, the "curve" would be more visible.
Then Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, agreed with Friedman's contention that there should be no torture prosecutions because we had all "acquiesced" in the Bush-Cheney Torture Agenda; we were all "the President's accomplices," and thus "pursuing criminal charges would be too hard legally and politically and too easy morally. Rory O'Connor: Media Torture
A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.
Their contention is the stage is not strong enough to have the pachyderm onstage.
No room for USA in semis Female curlers out of medal contention; also, lose to Swiss. USATODAY.com
a forfeiture of the charter grant because they exercise that oppression and persecution contrary to its first intent, and are the direct cause of contention and disunion, which is repugnant to the principal design of constituting the colony; viz. that it "May be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed as may win and invite the natives to the Christian faith." [l47] The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
Secret White House backchannels (discovered from recently released White House tapes) are used to support the book's contention.
He suffered a knee inJury last month, but is now in contention for a place in the matchday squad this weekend. Times, Sunday Times
Introduces multi-user access, slot alignment and power control, contention resolution. Presents the multi-user access method based on CDMA employed in the backward link.
This evidence supports their contention that the outbreak of violence was prearranged.
This appears to confirm Napier and Jost's contention that right wing political beliefs can guard against the potentially upsetting effects of inequality.
He was in contention for the Open title, but faded in that strange final round with everyone else, except Whatshisname.
He was not in serious contention and finished in a tie for 11th place. Times, Sunday Times
There is no factual basis to support that contention. Times, Sunday Times
There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
The British diets are all based on Mellanby's contention that the "A" vitamine is the antirachitic vitamine. The Vitamine Manual
I am not saying you do not have arguments against the contentions the applicant would wish to make.
The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
I agree with her contention that the debate was a good thing for the party, as argued below.
But it's not hard to see why this funding bottom line is the main point of contention here.
One of the main points of contention between the two sides was shift scheduling.
The disaster helped prove the pro-life contention that nothing is more vital and basic to human beings than loving and being loved by one's kith and kin.
“your contention that sanctions were not working because they didnâ€ ™ t stop Husseinâ€ ™ s army from gassing the Kurds is flat-out wrong.” Think Progress » “Public outrage, sporadic before, is growing
And whensoeuer any of our subiects hath any thing to do with any of the foresaid merchants by way of contentions: or that they be damnified or hindered by any of our subiects: then we appoint and ordeine our Chanceller and Secretary Vasili Shalcan to heare their causes, and finally to determine on both sides according to equitie and iustice: and that he shall search the trueth betweene both parties. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The emphatic affirmation of a supermundane, spiritual order of reality and the equally emphatic assertion of the caducity of things material fitted in with the essentially Christian contention that spiritual interests are supreme. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
His contention was that world trade barriers should be canceled.
For when I consider how short were the laws of ancient times, and how they grew by degrees still longer, methinks I see a contention between the penners and pleaders of the law; the former seeking to circumscribe the latter, and the latter to evade their circumscriptions; and that the pleaders have got the victory. Leviathan
One of the key areas of contention has been the metrics used to determine the stress tests. Times, Sunday Times
This decisive defeat puts them out of contention for this year's championship finals.
England roared back into contention in the final quarter of the match helped by the referee.
My contention being, whether they know it or not, these people are of the ‘similar ‘mindset as these, in fact, Brownshirts of old.’
Indeed, my contention is that everyone in his movies is completely real.
The contention of the French Republic that Article 177 cannot be used to obtain from the Court a ruling that such an act is null and void is pertinent.
The link between correlation and causation seems to be the bone of contention.
The contention that they were stridently opposed to the uprising is robustly disputed.
But he also agreed readily with my contention that such heady episodes have been a millstone. Times, Sunday Times
It has been the origin of a lot of discord and a lot of contention over consents.
In order to establish that contention the applicants assert they have no need to rely upon any statutory underpinning.
The U.S. Treasury will next month issue a key currency report and contention over policy toward China could be magnified by mid-term Congressional elections in November.
The duplex audio would allow officers to hear each other at the far ends of the county and the dispatcher, even if they were talking, to hear an officer who began to transmit in contention.
His contention was that world trade barriers should be canceled.
The most thoughtful and diplomatic of us would concede these points of contention.
Even so, we cannot see how this helps plaintiffs' contention that the plain meaning of ‘retail pet store’ does not include residences.
The high-pitched wail made by the cars at speed is another bone of contention. Times, Sunday Times
I wish it might do so; for its author admits all MY essential contentions, simply distinguishing my account of truth as 'modified' pragmatism from Schiller's and Dewey's, which he calls pragmatism of the 'radical' sort. Meaning of Truth
If our contentions are correct, it was entirely unnecessary and would have been a superfluity in the circumstances of this case to have had such a clause.
The termination of life-sustaining treatment and the potential conflict of interest between patient care and organ recovery is another point of contention.
A key area of contention is the call for the wilderness to be opened to oil and gas drilling.
But after packing nine birdies and an eagle into an astonishing round, she suddenly leapt into contention.
_ Not Neoptolemus so mirable] [W: Neoptolemus's sire irascible] After all this contention it is difficult to imagine that the critic believes _mirable_ to have been changed to _irascible_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
An e-voting system like this is an invitation for fraud, and sure to be a point of contention when the votes are counted.
Two goals in each half kept Sligo in contention despite not registering a score for the final 13 minutes.
Let's just say that I could dismantle his contentions over a post requiring several hundred words complete with sources, resulting in a million downvotes and a descension into comments hell.
Conversation ceases to resolve the internal contention between characters, words fail and the conflict comes to the point.
Some heroic defending against the wind in the first half and hard grafting throughout the field kept the men from the Wexford border in contention with the fancied champions for three quarters of the game.
Tennyson's frequent excursions into the realm of spiritual consciousness while still a child, bears out our contention that many children not infrequently have this experience, and either through reserve or from lack of ability to explain it, keep the matter to themselves; generally losing or "outgrowing" the tendency as they enter the activities of school life, and the mortal mind becomes dominant in them. Cosmic Consciousness
So ingrained is the reflex of contention that even seemingly unobjectionable ideas provoke it.
The contention here is that not all matters have necessarily benefited, or, indeed, can benefit from the revered analytic, reductionist, expository, dialogical methodology.
Hitler has said, and repeated in a broadcast yesterday, that the Saar was the last territorial bone of contention with France. Cake Eater Chronicles
The Hatters had lost two of their previous three league games and were in danger of slipping out of contention. The Sun
Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire.
It is my contention that the AM experience helped ingrain in the Canadian public mind the completely misleading notion that equity requires that incomes rise by a minimum of the rise in the cpi, irrespective of the specific causes of the price rise. The Real Dimensions of Canada's Contemporary Political Economy
In the absence of a ground plan with scale, it's impossible to accept this contention, specially because the substantive questions of proper alignment of pillar bases and their load-bearing capacity remain unresolved.
It is wonderful that any man could have, in the space of eight days, written, with his own hand, so fiery an invective, so compelling of the attention of any reader, so completely annihilative of his antagonist's pretensions and contentions, so convincingly establishing his own: to have made of it, in the course of composition so rapid and totally unrevised, such a jewel of Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Three corollaries must be added to this seemingly obvious common-sense contention. Times, Sunday Times
Main contention is that ‘Art’: its creation and appreciation, are innate; that these activities are universally human, that they developed as part of a survival mechanism. Storytelling as low risk experience…key to Survival
Terrence and Aaron lolled into a cushioned embrasure of a window seat, sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their respective contentions as CHAPTER XI
It was further declared that all such questions were regarded as essentially and distinctively American and that the United States would always prefer to see such contentions adjusted through the arbitrament of an American, rather than a European power.
There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country, (if they be not near kin or linked in marriage) but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children, friends and followers, some contention about wealth, gentry, precedency, &c., by means of which, like the frog in Anatomy of Melancholy
It's Hubbard's contention that eight nations are running the world in a shambolic, criminally inequitable way.
The Parliament of this country, elected by free men and women on the basis of free discussions which cannot be abrogated, is not just a club of good fellows who ought to do the nation's business in the shortest possible time and with the least possible contention; rather it is a body which should examine every proposal that is made to make sure that it is in the country's best interest; it is a body in which attention should be drawn to proposals that ought to be made but which are often overlooked, unless an election is just around the corner; it is a body which should scrutinize expenditures and inquire into the administration of public affairs to make sure that fairness, justice and equity are maintained. The Role of the Opposition in Parliament
This supports the administration's contention that the White House was receiving conflicting reports during the course of Aug. 29 about whether the levees had been breached or simply "overtopped" by hurricane-driven flood waters. Who Knew What?
It is my contention that she didn't really betray anyone, and that the real agents of betrayal in all of this are the media.
The British contention was that the wording of the Treaty provided first, that the channel should separate the mainland from Vancouver Island; second, that the boundary should go through it in a "southerly" direction; and third, that it should be navigable. The Oregon Boundary Question
It is apparently your contention that for this exact same population - a population accurately described as “demonstrably willing to risk death for a marginal improvement in their family’s prospects” - the idea of imbuing one’s children with free US citizenship has zero motivational value. Republicans Take Healthcare Away From Newborns
In support of this contention, he quoted a memorandum dated 10 November, from the then bursar of the college which specified that a 50% council tax discount might be granted on houses owned elsewhere by members of the staff.
He seems to prefer candor to contention, honest talk to doublespeak.
It's not yet clear what the site will be called, but one name in contention is Shine. Internet News: Yahoo Wants Women to Shine
Preposterous as this contention seemed to Washington, he did not call a drumhead court-martial for the immediate sentence and execution of a spy caught in civilian dress. Washington
When Goosen was bunkered on the 14th and dropped another shot, the momentum he had found on the front nine had been arrested, and he had slipped from the lead into mere contention.
I have received no evidence to support that contention. Times, Sunday Times
They will not be in contention for the championship, there should be no shackles. Times, Sunday Times
One of the main points of contention is the executive compensation issue.
The tribunal rejected the employer's contention that Ms Riehn was fairly dismissed on grounds of redundancy.
Kelly Sotherton fought her way back into medal contention last night with a gutsy run in the 200 metres, the fourth event of the two-day heptathlon, at the World Championships here.
The proposed laws aimed to curb contention between communities and the opencut industry, as exemplified by the proposed Knife River pit in Lolo. Undefined
Funebri,” p. 527 (Poeseos Asiaticæ Commentarii), gravely noting, “Hæc Elegia non admodum dissimilis esse videtur pulcherrimi illius carminis de Sauli et Jonathani obitu; at que adeò versus iste ‘ubi provocant adversarios nunquam rediit a pugnæ contentione sine spiculo sanguine imbuto, ‘ex The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It's therefore my contention that with the exception of consumer digicams the future lies in full-frame SLRs, not ones with 1.5X or similar magnification factors.
Whenever I read those stories, I think of George Foreman's contention that the rope-a-dope was never a strategy at all, that Muhammad Ali had fired an arrow into a barn and then walked over afterward and painted a bull's-eye around it. Washington is bad at scheming
The result also keeps Scotland in contention for the coveted Leonard Trophy, awarded to the nation with the best overall-points total from the singles, pairs, triples and fours.
He was in contention for a place in the European championship squad.
It is my contention that a new frame of reference is required, which embodies a critical concept of rationality or a critical theory of rationality. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
This surface interval between leaving the bell and entering the decompression chamber, became a point of contention within the medical profession.
In another point of contention, the plant attorney argues Mclaughlin doesn't have "standing" for the appeal because he claims the resident isn't an abutter who would be adversely affected by the plant. News from www.thesunchronicle.com
Mr Caws accepts that on the available evidence he cannot sustain a contention that the Labour group took a formal decision to approve the application at the meeting of the Planning Committee.
He does not find, as in Europe, a crowded society, where every place is over-stocked; he does not feel that perpetual collision of parties, that difficulty of beginning, that contention which oversets so many. Letters from an American Farmer
If interest in the heresies he combated may be said to be confined to-day to scholars who study them as a chapter in heresiology, or seek in them a bone of contention, the interest in the points of ecclesiastical order delineated by him was never more intense than now. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
The victor here last year, he's the only one of the top four out of championship contention. Times, Sunday Times
But if this be granted, I have established my contention that the Humanities should not be treated as a mere crown and ornament of education; that they should inform every part of it, from the beginning, in every school of the realm: that whether a child have more education or less education, what he has can be, and should be a liberal education throughout. XII. On the Use of Masterpieces
Let us grant Goffman's contention that marginalized, diasporic cultures are transgressive in nature and lead to cultural hybridity.
The deputy judge ruled against this contention.
The victor here last year, he's the only one of the top four out of championship contention. Times, Sunday Times
The result also keeps Scotland in contention for the coveted Leonard Trophy, awarded to the nation with the best overall-points total from the singles, pairs, triples and fours.
That finding faced the same hurdles as the finding of magnetites did: no confirmation of liquid water on or near the surface of Mars and the contention that the carbonates were formed in a superhot environment, where no life could possibly exist. First Contact
I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow-creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me. Chapter 20
Contention for procuration is the last resort for the shareholders of a listed company to punish the management who fail to maximize the company's profits.
One place of contention was Jiaozhou (northern Vietnam). Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Goosen is one of a handful of players in contention this weekend at the PGA Championship, the final major of the season, and the one Woods wants desperately so he can become the first golfer to win three of a season's four major championships twice in his career. USATODAY.com - Goose chasing a Tiger
One area of contention is whether a confession made by a co-defendant may be tendered by a defendant.
Whether Reform Party nominee Perot will be included also remains a point of contention.
The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country.
Serious questions remain as to the readiness, willingness and fitness to lead of those in main contention.
Hero is here the proper name, for there was some contention, and the men who had titles crowd all others beneath their titles and escutcheons. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
A vote was passed in town meeting that the new Church should be located "on the nearest convenientest spot to the centre," but the words _nearest, convenientest_, were a cause of furious contention. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885
Her contention was that by having financial control of her dotal estate, her assets could not be claimed by her husband. Spain.
It was great to be in contention again. Times, Sunday Times
Of course it was a matter of some contention with Mother that I was using all of her hairspray to kill insects, so I reserved that weapon for dire circumstances.
Thus, my contention is that the existence of uneven power relations does not necessarily entail the subordination and passivity of the ‘other’.
Anyone who watched “The Killing Floor” in Labor Studies class can tell you that contention is just so much bushwa. She Does Not Speak For Me
His great book, "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung," opens with the phenomenalistic contention that "the world is my idea. The Approach to Philosophy
Columbus's contention that the earth was round turned out to be correct.
It is the Claimant's contention that this damage was avoidable and caused by a negligent omission by Mr Roberts.
Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandal-mongering shop-women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of Good and Evil were still engaged in unhappy contention. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
It is my contention that Van Eyck's picture is a posthumous representation of Costanza, the only wife of Giovanni di Nicolao of whose existence we find any evidence.
Baseball, softball, karate, roller sports, climbing, wakeboarding and wushu, a martial art, are the other sports in contention. Times, Sunday Times
Her main contention is that doctors should do more to encourage healthy eating.
The main bone of contention is the temperature level of the air-conditioners.
Nonetheless, by rejecting these premises, the Stoics often committed themselves to highly disputable contentions.

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