(v. i.) To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
(v. i.) To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
(v. i.) To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
(v. t.) To struggle for; to contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(2) It is contended that the latter is the main factor in its production as opposed to the more common external rotation variety.
(3) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
(4) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(5) The mayor needs to be in parliament to challenge other contenders for the party's leadership, such as George Osborne and Theresa May.
(6) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(7) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.
(8) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.
(9) Radiotherapy after limited resection of craniopharyngiomas has been advocated by some investigators while others contend radical resections by means of advanced surgical techniques afford better outcome of patients.
(10) Despite spanning more than 1,300 acres it will not, apparently, be a contender for the title of world's largest: that appears still to reside with the 47-stage Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, as certified by Guinness World Records .
(11) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
(12) Although acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is clearly a public health threat, Beauchamp contends that the view that it is also a threat to the majority's values is a form of potentially counterproductive legal moralism.
(13) The author contends that changes in psychoanalytic theory are currently facilitating a more experiential view of the Rorschach.
(14) And he will contend, with a laugh, that therefore by any objective criteria, at 54, his career should be over already, while all the time doing everything in his power to prove the opposite.
(15) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(16) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
(17) It represents something of a vindication for Spielberg whose last high-minded awards contender, the first-world-war drama War Horse, failed to win anything at the last edition of either the Globes or the Oscars.
(18) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(19) With four matches to take the crown, a single strength can make the difference for the remaining contenders.
(20) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
Quarrel
Definition:
(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member
(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
(n.) A glazier's diamond.
(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
(n.) Earnest desire or longing.
(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
(v. t.) To quarrel with.
(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(3) This quarrel split the black movement down the middle, and was compounded by Du Bois's ideas on leadership.
(4) The pair departed La Liga last summer, only to quarrel again at Chelsea and Manchester City.
(5) Berezovsky, a Kremlin insider in the days of Boris Yeltsin, left Russia in 2000 after a quarrel with Vladimir Putin and has been the subject of an extradition order by Russia .
(6) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(7) It's a quarrel between substance and form, if you like, a question of emphasis – does a country's nature owe most to its history, or to its land?
(8) It fell to Van Rompuy to deal with quarrelling national leaders over the EU's worst ever crisis – the euro, the sovereign debt and financial turmoil.
(9) But American conservatives for the most part have had no quarrel with vaccines – unless they are on a collision course with other deeply held beliefs, said John Evans, who teaches bioethics at the University of California at San Diego and is married to Schreiber.
(10) Although Arendt agreed with the final verdict of the trial, namely, that Eichmann should be condemned to death, she quarreled with the reasoning put forward at the trial and with the spectacle of the trial itself.
(11) While we are rooted here going la-la-la auld Ireland (because at this distance in time the words escape us) our neighbours are patching their quarrels, losing their origins and moving on, to modern, non-sectarian forms of stigma, expressed in modern songs: you are a scouser, a dirty scouser.
(12) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
(13) The few big publishers that now continue functioning at all under the deliberately destructive pressure of Amazon marketing strategies are increasingly controlled by that pressure.” The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: “Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is.” She assures her readers that her “only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.” She stressed that she has no issue with other areas of the tech giant’s business, including self-publishing: “Amazon and I are not at war.
(14) A case of a 35-year-old male who died suddenly after a blow on the chest by his opponent during a quarrel.
(15) They never subsequently claimed exclusive credit, and never quarrelled.
(16) By the 1970's the quarrel shifted from affective questions to matters of effectiveness and efficiency.
(17) Establishment outrage reached spittingly aggressive proportions when Ali, pleading deferment on religious grounds, told reporters: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong … no Vietcong ever called me ‘nigger’.” Within an hour, outraged, all US boxing bodies suspended his licence and stripped him of his title.
(18) I was brought up in a culture that shied away from argument because wherever there is quarrelling there will sooner or later be murder.
(19) But Quo Vadis laid bare an inhibition possibly implanted in his schooldays or by his quarrelling parents; he could not portray passionate feelings without looking foolish.
(20) One rhetorical feature of her book on Eichmann is that she is, time and again, breaking out into a quarrel with the man himself.