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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.
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.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
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.
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.
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
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?