contend with something

Examples of contended

contended

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The defendant healthcare professionals contended that the families greatly exaggerated both the severity of the patients' pain and the professional unresponsiveness to it.
It is the latter option, it is contended, that can be seen as the more demonstrable of the two.
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.
He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
Within this political system, various world views contended with one another and periods marked by the domination of changing substructures followed one another.
The national secretariat contended with a constant lack of money and personnel, and the organisation only received a limited number of national offices.
If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
Now the individual's new commitment to the true faith contended with the ancient loyalties of the subject to one's liege lord.
Serious tensions arose as older and newer groups (the latter representing entrepreneurs and the professional middle classes) contended for political and economic power.
He thus contended that labour mobility was neither hindered nor monitored.
It is often contended that social isolation, loneliness and the absence of a social support network are common problems of later life.
She contended that this tendency emerges after the child's fourth year, coupled with cognitive advances that also show a new tendency toward precision.
It should be stressed that it is not being contended that either of the impersonal approaches would constitute an axiom that is internally logically incoherent.
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