Examples of contention

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If my contentions have anything to them, the satisfaction is illusory.
Here is not the place to probe the limits of such radical contentions.
Current laws and debates in other countries around the world reflect similar contentions toward embryonic stem cell research.
As grounds for their skepticism, they adduced the same contentions that became common among physicists and were outlined in the previous section.
Extant research is able to support several major contentions of basic developmental psychopathology theories of youth violence.
On each count, the courts rejected the government's contentions.
What are the main contentions of this new interpretation ?
They may find contentions such as those we have made questionable, but not surprising or scandalous.
Our findings support the contentions made by other contributors to the volume, namely that off-farm opportunities reduce incentives for forest use.
I make no contentions here regarding where the lines should be drawn.
The question lands him squarely in an area of contentions that are exterior to the internal nature of the disciplines.
One of my main contentions is that these developments and the social relations they sustain have many hidden costs, which manifest themselves in 'stalled well-being'.
There is no point at which they unambiguously intersect experience and therefore no point where one of their contentions could be modified by behavioural data.
Brief historical perspective is necessary in evaluating such contentions.
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