Sentence example with the word 'contentions'

contentions

Last update: June 15, 2015


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From a very early period Alsace has been a disputed territory, and has suffered in the contentions of rival races.   [Please select]

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I shall therefore examine these contentions.   [Please select]

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[Illustration: JOHN CALVIN] Now the contentions between these different sects were sharp and bitter.   [Please select]

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--The results of these royal contentions had been extremely calamitous.   [Please select]

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488); but the bitter feelings engendered by the contentions of the rival families still existed.   [Please select]

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461)--had fallen, and by the contentions of the independent native princes among themselves.   [Please select]

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His boy face, lean, high-strung, brooding, was full of suppressed contentions.   [Please select]

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Many difficult situations were created by contentions among Congressmen over appointments.   [Please select]

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The cause of religion was lost sight of in the labyrinth of contentions, jealousies, and plots.   [Please select]

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But notwithstanding our efforts on their behalf we are threatened with a campaign of non-co-operation because, forsooth, the allied Powers found themselves unable to accept the contentions advanced by Indian Moslems.   [Please select]

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To some it doubtless seemed like the old controversy between Augustine and Pelagius, like the contentions between Dominican and Franciscan monks.   [Please select]

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