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1. Hence, medical and skin experts contend that applying topical creams and other skin
2. We have a new scale of creature to contend with in the universe, creatures a quarter billion cubic light years in volume
3. long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier
4. Being only a one year crash course, the pressure was on from the word go and, when we had the energy, we envied our fellow students on the Private Secretary’s course who not only did not have to contend with the extra complication of a second language, but also had two years to learn what we were taking one to do
5. He will not contend forever nor will
6. to contend with floods
7. willingness to contend for the promises, like Jacob who wrestled
8. forced to contend with ferrymen who charged them twice
9. hill to contend with as he crossed into the valley of the
10. Deep within his inner self Zarko was experiencing a kind of hurt he had never had to contend with before
11. And while it saved them from further having to contend with twin threats, he was now even more drained and wearied
12. "Listen, you ill-mannered windbag," Mr Pinscher abruptly interceded, having found that this visitor's words were interfering with his digestion, at a time when his digestive system had more than enough to contend with already
13. “My guess is that whoever is responsible was able to contend with them or somehow simply got lucky
14. Not only was it even colder than here but they had well over thirty percent more gravity to contend with
15. Along with the guard duties we had to do and keeping an eye on the Turks there were endless fatigue parties to contend with
16. She had the good grace not to press him on matters of strategy, perhaps she already had enough on her mind to contend with
17. But now she had to contend with Jack as well
18. Also though we had the censor to contend with this was he of the black pen who crossed things out on your letter with a stroke
19. Not only are we burdened with the nanny state; we now have to contend with the nanny society
20. Either way, we have a monster to contend with
21. Then there were the tortures of prickly heat to contend with, and a longing for a draught of water a few degrees below 90
22. At least inside the shed he only had one animal to contend with
23. In this manner the revolutionists had to contend with contentious factions both foreign and domestic
24. Many, in some manner or another, would have to contend with and overcome a variety of economic hardships and social/cultural barriers too numerable to mention; however well documented and available to those who may wish to be properly informed of such matters
25. He would have to contend with Molly, and his two daughters and four sons for the rest of his life
26. “The other great love interest that I shall have to contend with
27. Another chore that Michael had to contend with was the mounds of medical bills that arrived each day
28. Patting the plane on the bonnet, which gobbed a lot of castor oil onto my glove, I told the Avro, “This is the new love interest you are going to have to contend with
29. forth, walking off the pain in my belly; I had to contend with
30. His neck, his shoulders, everything had to contend with the gee-loading in every turn
31. She had never had to contend with the shells before
32. “I will have to contend with that
33. And Man’s long-term insistence that part of his God’s nature was the capricious examples of it in the natural realm that Man had to contend with, was part of the confusion that Man himself had ritualized into his incorrect understanding, as was also indicated in Job’s story, that had led Man away from God’s real purpose concerning him
34. I contend that there are elements within the broad sweep of history, from prehistoric, to oral, then written, that seem to repeat themselves
35. Could it be that they didn’t have to contend with as rapid or numerous environmental changes as Man, who radiated out into many differing climatic zones and exponentially expanding dangers?
36. Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
37. 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand;
38. 10 That which has been is named already and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him who is mightier than he
39. These patterns become our characteristic of our way of living – and they are very powerful forces to contend with
40. shall be delivered, for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children
41. 8 He is close who justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me
42. not contend forever, neither will I be always be angry, for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls who I have made
43. you contend with horsese and if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of
44. O Lord, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me
45. Trophy: Victory; to contend for a prize; winning in warfare of the Spirit
46. But didn’t you have to contend with the bandits in the hills?”
47. So now she also had a sore foot to contend with
48. 1 Hear you now what the Lord says; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice
49. the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed
50. Fortunately, it was a new, expensive house so we didn’t have to contend with noisy stairs
1. were washed away when she looked at the contended
2. Michael, indeed, had a concealed pistol permit, he contended – although, as Edgar recalled, Michael knew nothing about it when he arrested him
3. What was really bad, Truman contended, was that any direction the police investigation went, whether it was strictly the murder, the laundering connection via the checks or drug smuggling, Beth could easily be considered by the police to be an important witness, something she dreaded, particularly knowing that one of the investigating officers was Enrique Segovia, the cocaine-selling cop that coincidentally Truman had learned of that same day in prison
4. The Samosa government, he contended, was just the latest manifestation in a long history of United States manipulation and imperialistic exploitation of their homeland
5. While he wouldn’t have hesitated for a moment; if confronted by a charging bull moose, or attacked by a mother bear defending her cubs; both situations which he had indeed contended with in the past; for a moment he was transfixed by the sudden jolt of pure naked fear shooting through his guts
6. But their loss was our gain, wasn’t it? his memory contended against the loyalty that he once had for his former faith
7. They have historically contended with each other over the land of Canaan and others around it, and do so to this day
8. Orb contended the world’s famine was caused by population increase combined with limits of food production
9. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
10. and shall not find them, even those who contended with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing
11. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, why is the house of God
12. 17 Then I contended with
13. 21 But Alcimus contended for the high priesthood
14. ” Such policies, Ehrlich contended, would allow population increase so great as to destroy the earth’s ecosystem
15. seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended
16. Simon contended that environmental conditions and living standards are getting better for most people in most parts of the world and will continue to do so
17. Democrats also contended the cost of repeal is more than the
18. “You further contended that they were pumping at a hundred pounds
19. He furthermore contended that Lieutenant James was trying to perform his duties correctly
20. During his lifetime he certainly was no angel, he lied, committed treason, abused the temple, coveted, committed adultery, murdered, procrastinated, contended with his own rebellious family, but through it all, every time his sin was pointed out to him and with each misstep, he listened to wise counsel, accepted responsibility and learnt, continually growing in stature and power
21. 13 Eleazar was the first to contend and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended
22. 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another saying "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"
23. Paquette concluded that structural weaknesses from repairs to the Fitzgerald and poor boat handling led to the disaster, and contended that Coast Guard marine inspectors overlooked problems in the construction and repair history of the Fitzgerald
24. The Coast Guard, Stubbs contended, was not a good fit in the Department of Transportation
25. 4 You all contended day and night for the whole brotherhood that in his mercy and good pleasure the number of his elect might be saved
26. 12 Envy brought down Dathan and Abiram alive to the grave because they contended against Moses the servant of God
27. 2 For he when a strife arose concerning the priesthood and when the tribes contended which of them should be adorned with that glorious name commanded the twelve chiefs of the tribes to bring to him rods each inscribed with the name of a tribe; and when he had taken them he bound them together and sealed them with the seals of the heads of the tribes and laid them up on the table of God in the tabernacle of the testimony
28. Papp contended it was easier for illegal immigrants to come across the ice than to use the waterways where they could be pursued by Customs, Immigration, Coast Guard and Canadian patrol craft
29. Not private enough, Carl contended, and they went instead to the Alley, where the sound of falling pins masked communications
30. Aristotle however, contended that the value of a play was determined by the audience, not the
31. Bors and Lady Sharon contended with their massive opponent
32. Our forefathers have long contended with the oppressive borders and picket lines of the troll folk of Gaea
33. Restadicus and the Lore Masters contended with the levitating beholders
34. Listhew and Smithforge stepped in their path and contended with the surging bull-trolls with their broadswords
35. A battalion of transparent skeletons and zombie knights contended with the warriors
36. Those that made it through their line contended with the axes and hammers of the dwarves
37. Starfling and Flamering flew into the night air and contended with Tiamat
38. Rauros contended with Heartsing, the seraphim
39. They strode at the core of the firbolgs and contended with their fiery claws
40. They have contended long and hard with the gorgons and firbolgs that run rampant through their Home Plane
41. The other warriors, including the Morphozoids, Qualinesti Elves and members of the Bengal Clan contended with their adversaries wholeheartedly
42. They too knew the battle tactics of their Chaotic Kindred and contended with them tactfully
43. And so it came, after much roving of the eyes, that I determined to pry myself from the initial fear that held me at bay, and contended, at least for the while, to scour about the middle level of this haunt
44. Rodan readily accepted all that was presented to him regarding the attributes of God, but he contended that the Father in heaven is not, cannot be, a person as man conceives personality
45. 4 Thomas contended that God does communicate with man, and therefore that the Father is a person, even within the definition of Rodan
46. Then Nathaniel appealed to his own personal experience with God, and that Rodan allowed, affirming that he had recently had similar experiences, but these experiences, he contended, proved only the reality of God, not his personality
47. I contended that I was watching the stupid thing when it jammed up and tried to add water
48. The shift manager contended that if I was it would have never tied up
49. It doesn’t matter what the agreement is, it can be contended in court, it can cost a lot of money and a lot of time to resolve, and it is not fair in any sense already
50. because they contended with him
1. The good temper and moderation of contending factions seem to be the most essential circumstances in the public morals of a free people
2. Upon such occasions, each political party has either found it, or imagined it, for his interest, to league itself with some one or other of the contending religious sects
3. The distance of those provinces from the capital, from the principal seat of the great scramble of faction and ambition, makes them enter less into the views of any of the contending parties, and renders them more indifferent and impartial spectators of the conduct of all
4. ‖ This ―unbroken chain of events,‖ that finds ostensible expression in future behavior, is irreconcilable, it would seem, with causal/effects partially achieved in conjunction with problematical outcomes, that, in any event, could neither shape nor influence an uncertain future unless its ―collective actions‖ were uniformly mapped out, absent the intervention of Accident or Chance or other contaminating elements occasioned by voluntary actions not in keeping with ―programmed‖ designs that would (otherwise) render such a scenario, unthinkable; that is to say, there are far too many contending variables that need to be factored into the equation
5. As a faction grows, disagreements widen to the point of eventual separation into two or more competing and antagonistic parts, each contending that their view is superior to the others, or all others
6. Jud 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee
7. 4 - Spoken by David when he was contending with the lion and the wolf which took a sheep from his flock
8. In a karmic-unconscious paradigm, we see we're contending with an ongoing, self-created – or, at very least, self-reinforced – process, not a thing, as the term "the unconscious" suggests
9. As a consequence of the concurrent struggle in Rome for supremacy, Palestine was a battleground for some of the contending forces in Rome itself
10. 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time and that scorned by all men for cowardice 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness by not contending to the death for our divine law
11. “It was constructed long ago and speaks of a lasting conflict between contending magics
12. Serious situations would arise every few days, but Andrew, with the assistance of his apostolic associates, managed to induce the contending parties to come to some sort of agreement, at least temporarily
13. 4 When Nathaniel had finished speaking, the apostles and their associates fell into serious discussion and engaged in earnest debate, some contending for the correctness of Peter's interpretation, while almost an equal number sought to defend Nathaniel's explanation of the parable
14. On this occasion he taught them the three ways of contending with, and resisting, evil:
15. 2 Christianity came into existence and triumphed over all contending religions primarily because of two things:
16. After contending with the gridlock traffic of downtown Miami, he eventually pulled into the parking lot at 12:58 P
17. ‘’What I will say is that I have a lot of professional respect for the other actresses that are contending for that Oscar
18. bound up with contending theological doctrines which are not susceptible of
19. critical of Moses, contending that since the two of them were
20. Luke 22 says that as He prayed, it's like He prayed in agony; or literally, He was contending with a spiritual adversary so strongly, that sweat came off Him - and it was a huge emotional spiritual ordeal
21. Thank You for contending with me today for the souls of my students and co-workers
22. – that which the nism is contending with
23. “And what are they contending over?” pulsed like a GPS nearing its crosshairs
24. Always remember that your letter will be contending with perhaps tens of other
25. She seemed to have been worried small by her position, like a bone among contending dogs, in the middle of different indignations
26. Contending with adolescents was bad enough, but Nyshifters this far south
27. facts? I am not contending for my personal preference in translating the scriptures, but to merely translate accurately
28. This is nothing less than FRAUD-a Christian HOAX! Show me where else in historic academia we find such reckless abandonment of the facts? I am not contending for my personal preference in translating the scriptures, but to merely translate accurately and consistently what we find in all the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts
29. Milton's genius has filled the atmosphere with a brilliant phantasmagoria of contending angels, at once too human and too divine—a vision of chivalry which has resulted in creating either a sympathetic interest, as in Robert Burns’s verses, on behalf of the hero of the song—or an unconquerable skepticism with regard to the whole subject
30. What, then, was the position practically taken up by the Lord of Glory between the two contending factions?
31. But what we do know, is that, amidst the seeming chaos, the Spirit of Order ruled; and, through incalculable ages, that Spirit moved upon the surface and through the mass, condensing, combining, solidifying, separating land and water and air; till at length the natural forces, acting out the volitions of orderly Eternal Thought, created an earth on which organic life was possible; and the long battle of fire and water, the strife and attraction of contending elements, ended in a habitable world
32. I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence
33. For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men; his eye is ever directed towards things fixed and immutable, which he sees neither injuring nor injured by one another, but all in order moving according to reason; these he imitates, and to these he will, as far as he can, conform himself
34. It was the last yearning for life contending with the resolution of despair; then his dungeon seemed less sombre, his prospects less desperate
35. For many moments the elder sister looked upon the younger, with a countenance that wavered with powerful and contending emotions
36. At this embarrassing moment, when they began to think the whole of the hostile tribe was gradually encircling them, they heard the yell of combatants and the rattling of arms echoing under the arches of the wood at the place where Uncas was posted, a bottom which, in a manner, lay beneath the ground on which Hawkeye and his party were contending
37. It was through this dense and dark forest that Uncas was still contending with the main body of the Hurons
38. "No, Pip," Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; "and
39. When he had reached the schoolhouse voices again contending called to him
40. He worked it himself at the police-office, day after day for many days, contending against even a committal; and at the trial where he couldn't work it himself, sat under counsel, and—every one knew—put in all the salt and pepper
41. The baby policeman, Constable MacFadden, summoned by special courier from Booterstown, quickly restored order and with lightning promptitude proposed the seventeenth of the month as a solution equally honourable for both contending parties
42. But just before the close of my second provostry, Providence was kind to Mr Hirple, and removed him gently away from the cares, and troubles, and the vain policy of this contending world, into, as I hope and trust, a far better place
43. "Oh, nothing, nothing," said he, and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet, the high, strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger
44. He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations
45. And as to contending for a reform short of that, it is like asking for a bit of an avalanche which has already begun to thunder
46. A strange sadness rested upon her features, like icy tears upon the robe of December, as she pointed to the contending elements without, and bade me contemplate the two beings presented
47. They had now attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending
48. A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe
49. ), Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich (Washington, DC, 1991)
50. One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another
1. He said he just wants the opportunity, but his lawyer contends that someone in the judiciary is messing with him and that’s why he’s still locked up
2. 1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, 2 Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him
3. The wise man contends with the foolish man, whether he rages
4. shall be delivered, for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children
5. 8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contends with those who are young, so shall you be
6. Hayward contends that if the operators of the global warming apparatus can’t offer a similar percentage of probability that their predictions are accurate, which they do not, this should mean to a scientist that their predictions are unreliable and useless
7. hypothesis, which contends that from a combination of prior experiences or expectations,
8. “The defense contends, therefore, that the whole tragedy resulted from a
9. 1 When therefore he made the commandment what says he? Who is he that disputes with me? Let him resist me; or who is he that contends with me? Let him draw near to the Son of the Lord (God)
10. nearby clusters of galaxies bend the light of distant galaxies She contends
11. Sears contends that people are overweight because of insulin resistance; however,
12. He contends the Goddess dominated preliterate cultures, and that the celebrations of her power as Mother, Lover, Creator and
13. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a better feeling for and knowledge of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends had a cohesive spiritual and intellectual center whole whose interests were totally different from ours, and yet powerful enough to give birth to the complex spiritual/psychic concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
14. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a better knowledge of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends had a cohesive spiritual and intellectual center whose interests were totally different from ours, and yet powerful enough to give birth to the complex spiritual/psychic concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
15. He also contends that Iran’s
16. Tolle contends that you can create a gap in the mind-stream simply by
17. Spring’s aim in creating this story was to give readers a vivid sense of the artistic, spiritual, and highly psychic nature of the much neglected, preliterate Proto-Egyptian culture that he contends gave birth to the complex spiritual concepts and practices that eventually came to maturity thousands of years later in Dynastic Egypt
18. Shourie’s book enumerates several illogical and regressive fatwas (though he has also ridiculed several fatwas, which may not be considered regressive by believers of any faith, such as those enumerated in pages 673 to 677 (which are about whether it’s appropriate to cut nails on a certain day or travel on a certain day, and by the way, as Shourie himself mentions, there are ulema (Muslim clerics) who themselves branded most of such queries to be baseless in the light of Islam, but there are indeed Hindus with such beliefs too), among several others mentioned in the book, and certain fatwas he has highlighted are based on the clergy’s own cultural notions – for instance, there is nothing in the Islamic texts prohibiting celebrating birthdays, but since Prophet Muhammad did not do so, a cleric has dismissed it as a European practice antithetical to Islam, though having said that, very many Muslims enjoy celebrating their birthdays, and different clerics also have different perspectives!), and though he acknowledges the existence of progressive clerics, he contends, like that apostate of Islam, that the latter are the ones who are not correctly interpreting Islam, while the regressive folk are
19. contrails can significantly affect climate, Travis contends
20. the page backdrop that contends with the foreground text
21. Toby Keith contends that Peter Jennings argued that a song with the lyrical content in question did not belong on his network
22. —and yet contends for a future resurrection, the purpose of which they can give no account
23. Again 'tis just at morning--a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
24. Following the analogy of the other animals, he contends that all natural gifts are scattered about indifferently among both sexes, though there may be a superiority of degree on the part of the men
25. and “I don’t want…” The author contends that the Universe only hears ‘want
26. Elder contends that the markets behave in a similar manner
27. Even so does the ignorant physician act, who, having placed his patient in the most unsanitary conditions, or having administered to him poisonous drugs, afterward contends that his patient has succumbed to the disease, when had he been left to himself he would have recovered long ago
28. She avowedly contends that it is her interest to engross the commerce of the world; that she has the power to engross it, and, therefore, she will engross it
29. If you give it the construction the gentleman contends for, to wit: that the second member of the passage is an extension of the description given by the first, then the second includes the first, and of consequence the first would be nugatory and superfluous; which would be doing violence to the gentleman's own rule of construction
30. The existing bank contends that it is beyond the power of a State to tax it, and if this pretension be well founded, it is in the power of Congress, by chartering companies, to dry up the whole of the sources of State revenue
31. The gentleman from Maryland admits expressly that the transmission of your public money for the payment of the Army and Navy must be effected through the agency of banks, but contends that that object can be effected as well by the State banks as by a Bank of the United States
32. Clay) contends that we have attempted to give a degree of weight and force to what we are pleased to call precedents, to which they would not be entitled in those tribunals from which we derive all our ideas of precedents
33. Was it such a repeal as the gentleman contends ought to have taken place of the Berlin and Milan decrees, viz: under the sign manual of the Emperor? No, sir, it was just such a letter as that of the Duc de Cadore
34. The gentleman from Virginia contends that it is a dispute about the carrying trade, brought on us by the cupidity of the American merchants, in which the farmer and planter have little interest; that he will not consent to tax his constituents to carry on a war for it; that the enemy is invulnerable on the "mountain wave," the element of our wrongs, but should they violate the "natale solum," he would point all the energies of the nation and avenge the wrong
35. On the subject of impressments, for which alone the war is now to be continued, what, let me ask, is the principle for which our Government contends? It is this, sir: that the flag of the merchant vessel shall cover all who sail under it; or, in other words, that our flag shall protect all the foreigners our merchants may think proper to employ in their service, whether naturalized or not
36. And who is prepared to say that American seamen shall be surrendered the victims to the British principle of impressment? And, sir, what is this principle? She contends that she has a right to the services of her own subjects: that, in the exercise of this right, she may lawfully impress them, even although she finds them in our vessels, upon the high seas, without her jurisdiction
37. But she further contends that her subjects cannot renounce their allegiance to her and contract a new obligation to other Sovereigns
38. Pitkin) contends ought to be made, has been made
39. He contends that individuals cannot divest themselves of their allegiance; that the right of expatriation does not exist; that the practice of naturalization is wrong