Contentions Synonyms and Antonyms

Contentions Sentence Examples

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

• In these main contentions the Eleatic school achieved a real advance, and paved the way to the modern conception of metaphysics.

• To dwell upon such literary infamies would be below the dignity of the historian, were it not that these habits of the early Italian humanists imposed a fashion upon Europe which extended to the later age of Scaliger's contentions with Scioppius and Milton's with Salmasius.

• The internal evidence has, as is usual in such cases, been brought forward as a conclusive argument in favour of both contentions.

• Tirpitz advances two contentions; first, that he would have sent the navy into decisive action at an earlier stage of the war; secondly, that he would have made an earlier and more ruthless use of the German U-boats; but his opponents traverse both these claims, and in particular assert that as Secretary of State he had neglected the construction of submarines, so that Germany entered the war with a comparatively small supply of these vessels.