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main contention

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meanings of mainand contention


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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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contention
noun
uk /kənˈten.ʃən/ us /kənˈten.tʃən/
the disagreement that results from ...
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Examples of main contention


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My maincontention is that coherence with intuitions adds no consequentialist value to the associated acts.
A further maincontention is the risk attached to a defined-contribution versus a defined-benefit scheme.
The maincontention of this review and of the emerging discipline of geometric integration is that this approach, although tempting, is at best incomplete, at worst badly misguided.
Her maincontention is that the community schools survived for so long because they were malleable + different governmental and non-governmental players could use them to fulfill their own interests.
My maincontention is that we should not apply two scales of compensation for the same kind of property.
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The improvement in trade which has resulted from rearmament has really proved our maincontention.
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It cannot be done, but that is not my maincontention.
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He himself seems to have fallen into an error which did not vitiate his maincontention but which we might as well put right.
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Our maincontention on this mass of orders is that, behind the genial facade of the uprating, there lurks a series of pitfalls.
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I am not saying this in adverse criticism of his maincontention as to what should be our long-range view of these matters.
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I agree, but that does not vitiate my maincontention.
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That seemed to be the maincontention of his argument.
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My maincontention is that it prevents our getting down to the real problem.
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Those quotations bring me to my maincontention tonight.
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The maincontention that he is now making is going to assist those who make covenants as a means of tax avoidance.
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The maincontention in those days was about raising the age at the other end of the juvenile court scale, from 16 to 17.
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I wholeheartedly agree with his maincontention and the graphic picture which he painted of the vital necessity of railways to people in the countryside.
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He appeared to have missed the maincontention that has been urged upon him.
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What is the maincontention of all labour students of this subject?
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