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They are learning what works, and what doesn't, when fliers must contend with unsteady airflows and with airfoils that continuously deform.
Given these evidences, we contend that there is a direct influence of ablating meteoroids on the topside of the mesospheric metal layer.
Otherwise, you'll contend with nasty headwinds and Lycra-soaking downpours.
We contend there is available insurance for barristers and solicitor advocates.
In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property.
Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company.
Yet we stepped forth trepidatiously because, after all, we recently had to contend with The Keyboard Disaster.
Part of helping the public health system contend with the threat of bioterrorism is having reliable research available.
They had at least as many noun cases to contend with as Latin speakers did, as well.
But in her first race on the turf, she will have to contend with three top fillies running as an entry for trainer Bobby Frankel.
Italian poets, in any case, have different bogies to contend with than those of American poets.
The consequent loss of grip invariably causes understeer that the drivers must contend with.
In fact I would even be so bold as to contend that I have a much better argument on the evidence than Peggy does.
These sleds reach a minimum speed of 80 mph and the driver has to contend with g-force in each of the turns.
He cites the heat as a possible problem to contend with and the opposition may be no slouches either.
Eastern growers must also contend with humidity-loving black rot, botrytis, downy mildew, and phomopsis.
Some analysts contend they should not be, at least under narrowly defined circumstances.
Other staff contend with phone lines that don't work, uncertain supply lines, and a power system that is unstable at the best of times.
Advocates contend that the government's approach has not only failed, but is also needlessly cruel.
There is a chance your soon-to-be ex-spouse will contend that a portion of the money does, in fact, belong to you.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is one of the most common troubles that a cavy raiser has to contend with.
They only contend that we should interweave some economy with the taxes with which we have chosen to begin the war.
In the playing of classical music, Mr. Gottschalk has to contend against his own individuality.
Having this matter attended to, there are other enemies with which we must contend.
They have to contend with the powers of darkness and the corruptions of nature.
You must indeed have been sorely pressed, having merci's whole force to contend with.
They not only defame Wilson, but they contend that the part we played in the war has been overestimated.
I am called a member of the uncovenanted Service, but I contend that such a term is a misnomer.
The vast empire with which sapor had almost made up his mind to contend was partitioned out into three moderate-sized kingdoms.
As it is, he has some difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his intellect, and the meanness of his subject.
Some critics contend that the loss of the boat was due to the gyroscopic action of its turbine engines.
For fourteen years the city has had to contend with the fears of the incomer.
We see them hostilely wrestling with the sovereign power, which they contend is subordinate to their own.
But it was a very different person with whom the madagascan had to contend in the end.
The biggest bugbear that the referee has to contend with is the penalty and offside restrictions.
Nor is it open to the gainsayer to contend that they were kings indeed but of some chance city.
It will be an evil day for the world when the nave shall leave its place and contend for that of the felloe.
They contend that different varieties of water possess different degrees of what they term the zymotic power.
Here, presumedly, these two troubled young ladies met in a disembodied form to contend for the possession of this young man.
If a proportional representation take place, the small States contend that their liberties will be in danger.
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