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Meanings of contend in English
Synonyms
Examples for "challenge"
Examples for "challenge"
1
However, he said helping people to make good choices remains a challenge.
2
Labour's business spokeswoman said a challenge in parliament could come days later.
3
A challenge of a different kind presents itself to EU countries today.
4
This is a challenge for city car brands in Europe in particular.
5
The challenge occurred if countries wanted to join an international carbon market.
1
Four Southeast Asian countries contest China's claims in the South China Sea.
2
The last local election contest in 2014 was a case in point.
3
The political contest ended in the autumn in favor of Mr. Pierce.
4
Most of the main opposition forces in Egypt simply boycotted the contest.
5
It is a year, not six months, since the Labour leadership contest.
1
The reports said the parties may take the dispute to arbitration court.
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The number of permanent jobs the project would create is in dispute.
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He cited ordinary dispute settlement procedures included in contracts as an example.
4
They said they would try to dispute it by all legal means.
5
They reduce to both the capital value of the subject in dispute.
1
The problem threatens farmers' ability to compete globally as EU subsidies diminish.
2
Companies in participating countries compete for work building components of the jet.
3
Just today, 10 Russian athletes lost their final court bid to compete.
4
Backers say the global economy requires countries to compete to lure innovation.
5
Serious Money: Can the individual investor hope to compete with the professionals?
1
Still, expect to see his campaign continue to vie for the constituency.
2
This means the companies sometimes vie for acquisition opportunities in the sector.
3
A large number of players are expected to vie for the company.
4
The inhabitants vie with the Japanese in the manufacture of lacquered ware.
5
All the emigrants seemed to vie with each other in being social.
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To do so would impugn the truth of one or the other.
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It is a piece of bare-faced impudence to impugn the girl's honour.
3
You impugn the conduct or honor of some gentleman at my table?
4
So I know a bit about campaigns to impugn character and damage careers.
5
The soundest criticism cannot impugn the honesty or the intelligence of such quotations.
1
For it is a sin to withstand and to repugn against his Lord like the sin of idolatry.
2
What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see?
Usage of contend in English
1
Democratic legislative leaders contend the items are outside of the budget process.
2
They contend this is an issue of exceptional importance in civil procedure.
3
Read more Comey's allies contend he is caught in an impossible position.
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The artists also have to contend with the whole Earth analogy problem.
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Especially now that we must contend with soldiers who cannot feel pain.
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The Jamaican society must acknowledge its past and contend with our blackness.
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How could beings with such frail bodies hope to contend with her?
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But they contend that the McGill rule will eviscerate mandatory consumer arbitration.
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We couldn't possibly contend with simultaneously observing all possible realities at once.
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No cats to contend with and plenty of food in the drawers.
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The greatest enemy the deer has to contend with is the wolf.
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Well, I contend that a college education is not about job training.
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Passengers, meanwhile, must contend with missing windows and doors, and cracked seats.
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Questions from journalists were not something Trump had to contend with though.
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Early arrivals will sadly have to contend with rather typical Oxegen weather.
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Prosecutors contend Khadr was treated humanely and has fabricated the abuse allegations.
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Contend through the time
Contend across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common