contend with something/someone

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contend
As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
The best-known response to the ideal-world thesis contends that proposition (2) is not logically necessary.
What is important, he contends, is jurisdictional control.
The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
Discussions are civilized affairs: verbal interchanges between contending parties reveal that a mistake has been made that needs to be corrected.
Within this political system, various world views contended with one another and periods marked by the domination of changing substructures followed one another.
He opts out of judging contending estimates ; he is, after all, a generalist.
Now the individual's new commitment to the true faith contended with the ancient loyalties of the subject to one's liege lord.
The author wishes to connect political economy and environmental change and contends that gender is the factor that links them.
They present evidence from neural network modeling, contending that cognitive neuroscience has no definitive answers.
Serious tensions arose as older and newer groups (the latter representing entrepreneurs and the professional middle classes) contended for political and economic power.
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