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1. He said he just wants the opportunity, but his lawyer contends that someone in the judiciary is messing with him and that’s why he’s still locked up
2. 1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, 2 Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him
3. The wise man contends with the foolish man, whether he rages
4. shall be delivered, for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children
5. 8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contends with those who are young, so shall you be
6. Hayward contends that if the operators of the global warming apparatus can’t offer a similar percentage of probability that their predictions are accurate, which they do not, this should mean to a scientist that their predictions are unreliable and useless
7. hypothesis, which contends that from a combination of prior experiences or expectations,
8. “The defense contends, therefore, that the whole tragedy resulted from a
9. 1 When therefore he made the commandment what says he? Who is he that disputes with me? Let him resist me; or who is he that contends with me? Let him draw near to the Son of the Lord (God)
10. nearby clusters of galaxies bend the light of distant galaxies She contends
11. Sears contends that people are overweight because of insulin resistance; however,
12. He contends the Goddess dominated preliterate cultures, and that the celebrations of her power as Mother, Lover, Creator and
13. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a better feeling for and knowledge of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends had a cohesive spiritual and intellectual center whole whose interests were totally different from ours, and yet powerful enough to give birth to the complex spiritual/psychic concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
14. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a better knowledge of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends had a cohesive spiritual and intellectual center whose interests were totally different from ours, and yet powerful enough to give birth to the complex spiritual/psychic concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
15. He also contends that Iran’s
16. Tolle contends that you can create a gap in the mind-stream simply by
17. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a vivid sense of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends gave birth to the complex spiritual concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
18. Shourie’s book enumerates several illogical and regressive fatwas (though he has also ridiculed several fatwas, which may not be considered regressive by believers of any faith, such as those enumerated in pages 673 to 677 (which are about whether it’s appropriate to cut nails on a certain day or travel on a certain day, and by the way, as Shourie himself mentions, there are ulema (Muslim clerics) who themselves branded most of such queries to be baseless in the light of Islam, but there are indeed Hindus with such beliefs too), among several others mentioned in the book, and certain fatwas he has highlighted are based on the clergy’s own cultural notions – for instance, there is nothing in the Islamic texts prohibiting celebrating birthdays, but since Prophet Muhammad did not do so, a cleric has dismissed it as a European practice antithetical to Islam, though having said that, very many Muslims enjoy celebrating their birthdays, and different clerics also have different perspectives!), and though he acknowledges the existence of progressive clerics, he contends, like that apostate of Islam, that the latter are the ones who are not correctly interpreting Islam, while the regressive folk are
19. contrails can significantly affect climate, Travis contends
20. the page backdrop that contends with the foreground text
21. Toby Keith contends that Peter Jennings argued that a song with the lyrical content in question did not belong on his network
22. —and yet contends for a future resurrection, the purpose of which they can give no account
23. Again 'tis just at morning--a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
24. Following the analogy of the other animals, he contends that all natural gifts are scattered about indifferently among both sexes, though there may be a superiority of degree on the part of the men
25. and “I don’t want…” The author contends that the Universe only hears ‘want
26. Elder contends that the markets behave in a similar manner
27. Even so does the ignorant physician act, who, having placed his patient in the most unsanitary conditions, or having administered to him poisonous drugs, afterward contends that his patient has succumbed to the disease, when had he been left to himself he would have recovered long ago
28. She avowedly contends that it is her interest to engross the commerce of the world; that she has the power to engross it, and, therefore, she will engross it
29. If you give it the construction the gentleman contends for, to wit: that the second member of the passage is an extension of the description given by the first, then the second includes the first, and of consequence the first would be nugatory and superfluous; which would be doing violence to the gentleman's own rule of construction
30. The existing bank contends that it is beyond the power of a State to tax it, and if this pretension be well founded, it is in the power of Congress, by chartering companies, to dry up the whole of the sources of State revenue
31. The gentleman from Maryland admits expressly that the transmission of your public money for the payment of the Army and Navy must be effected through the agency of banks, but contends that that object can be effected as well by the State banks as by a Bank of the United States
32. Clay) contends that we have attempted to give a degree of weight and force to what we are pleased to call precedents, to which they would not be entitled in those tribunals from which we derive all our ideas of precedents
33. Was it such a repeal as the gentleman contends ought to have taken place of the Berlin and Milan decrees, viz: under the sign manual of the Emperor? No, sir, it was just such a letter as that of the Duc de Cadore
34. The gentleman from Virginia contends that it is a dispute about the carrying trade, brought on us by the cupidity of the American merchants, in which the farmer and planter have little interest; that he will not consent to tax his constituents to carry on a war for it; that the enemy is invulnerable on the "mountain wave," the element of our wrongs, but should they violate the "natale solum," he would point all the energies of the nation and avenge the wrong
35. On the subject of impressments, for which alone the war is now to be continued, what, let me ask, is the principle for which our Government contends? It is this, sir: that the flag of the merchant vessel shall cover all who sail under it; or, in other words, that our flag shall protect all the foreigners our merchants may think proper to employ in their service, whether naturalized or not
36. And who is prepared to say that American seamen shall be surrendered the victims to the British principle of impressment? And, sir, what is this principle? She contends that she has a right to the services of her own subjects: that, in the exercise of this right, she may lawfully impress them, even although she finds them in our vessels, upon the high seas, without her jurisdiction
37. But she further contends that her subjects cannot renounce their allegiance to her and contract a new obligation to other Sovereigns
38. Pitkin) contends ought to be made, has been made
39. He contends that individuals cannot divest themselves of their allegiance; that the right of expatriation does not exist; that the practice of naturalization is wrong
