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- Her lawyer contends that the contract isn’t valid.
- She contends that they quoted her out of context.
- He stopped, satisfied that he had proved his contention.London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
- Whose idealism could survive all that? A good bit of evidence exists to support Linderman’s contention that it did not survive.James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
- When Colonel Lloyd’s slaves met the slaves of Jacob Jepson, they seldom parted without a quarrel about their masters; Colonel Lloyd’s slaves contending that he was the richest, and Mr. Jepson’s slaves that he was the smartest, and most of a man.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children?Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- PUTNAM—at the moment he is intent upon getting Parris, for whom he has only contempt, to move toward the abyss: Mr. Parris, I have taken your part in all contention here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- The dis—United States would fragment into several petty, squabbling autocracies, proving the contention of European monarchists and reactionaries that this harebrained experiment in democracy could not last.James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
- I contend, that ... wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure …Socrates
- He contends that the styles shouldn’t be mixed.
- He contended that Communism had no future
- We will not dispute it; my contention was absurd.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes from the Underground
- It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.Shaw, George Bernard -- Pygmalion
- The justice of her contention came abruptly home to Sheldon.London, Jack -- Adventure
- Strangely enough, I can give evidence that will demolish one contention of the prosecution.Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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