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Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years.
When you're usually competing and contending, you're not relying on younger players to produce for you.
Do I want to play for a contending team? Yeah. Do I want to go to the playoffs? Yeah. Do I want to win a ring? Of course I do.
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
One of the biggest challenges for any new administration is contending with its predecessor's priorities and beginning to advance its own.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
Contending that top-level, male high school basketball players are better than WNBA all-stars, while blatantly obvious, makes us feel uncomfortable to write.
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.