contend with something

Examples of contending

contending

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

About 60 other parties also joined the electoral contest, both within and outside the major contending alliances.
This category encompasses two hypotheses, both contending that some regions can draw on symbolic resources grounded in particular historical experiences that facilitate separatist claims.
For some, this will limit the book's ability to analyse the conflict's political economy and its structuration in culture and contending forms of power.
These results formalize and clarify a set of contending intuitions about function that researchers have had.
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.
Situations of perceived emergency can induce contending political groups to agree upon unpopular, painful measures.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
Within the latter dimension, we argue that citizens can emphasize two types of criteria when they gauge the likely outcomes of contending political options.
Looked at superficially, almost total immobility seems to have been secured by the contending forces.
The media, rather, need to be understood as sites for struggle between contending influences.
They present evidence from neural network modeling, contending that cognitive neuroscience has no definitive answers.
Theoretical advances and past research evidence can inform the selection of contending hypotheses and the prior probabilities assigned to them.
If ideology is not a contending factor in national politics, what is?
The critical ideological dynamic concerns the security of the status quo and the inherent advantage or disadvantage this gives to the contending sides.
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