The existence of an owning, ruling class divides society into factions, whose contentions threaten the destruction of any social group in which they take place.
Too much time and energy have already gone into contentions over details, when there was no general plan in view.
However, compared with the bitter contentions that follow, the dissensions in the reign of Constantine were but as the beginnings of trouble.
He was full of anxiety concerning the "stillness" and contentions of the London Moravians.
The allusion here is doubtless to the contentions at that time existing among the Moravians in London.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
But why, said I, did not divisions and contentions arise among the apostles?
These orders occasioned great contentions between the papists and reformed Bohemians, which was the cause of a violent persecution against the latter.
He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth.
However, it is not for the struggling lawyer to scorn any honourable brief, especially from a gentleman of stocks and bonds and varied interests like Mr. Crewe, with whom contentions of magnitude are inevitably associated.
Such, though stated more crudely, were mycontentions when desire did not cloud my brain and make me incoherent.
Enough did so, however, to make them a factor in the fierce political contentions which soon arose, and to gain the enmity of politicians.
The contentions in families, the tarnishment of woman's charm, the destruction of ideals, have all been proved to be but the ghosts of unfounded prejudices.
England, more than half a century later, made this part of the river the theatre of his contentionswith St. Louis, as Joinville relates.
All this coast was the scene of the contentions of our early kings; and Coeur de Lion and his father were actors in several of the dramas here performed.
If this should be their object, the internal contentions that now rage will favour that object far more than it favoured their former object.
But Henry only suffered the fate of nearly all the distinguished actors in those civil and religious contentions which desolated France for forty years.
Scotland was the scene of anarchy, growing out of the contentions and jealousies of rival chieftains, who stooped to every crime that appeared to facilitate their objects.
These contentions and combats are heard outside of these hells like the gnashings of teeth; and are also turned into gnashings of teeth when truths from heaven flow in among them.
But we conceive the main business is not to describe love, or to oppose this unto their contentions about trifling questions.
Hence, says he, proceed all these feverish distempers among you, your hot and passionate words, your evil speakings and reproachings, your contentions and wars about matters either civil or religious.
How many vain and empty gloriations are there about the point of birth and place, and what foolish contentions about these, as if it were children struggling among themselves about their order and rank!
What hath kindled all these names of bloody war, what hath increased all these fiery contentions among us, but the want of this?
Truly this is the root of all contentions and strifes.
And thus I think the many contentions about preparations of conditions preparatory to believing, may be reconciled.
But it was not with the peace that he ought to have had, for new contentions and new causes for anger arose daily with the governor, who was ever despotic in his actions.
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
The lot causeth contentionsto cease, and parteth between the mighty.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
This microscope was far too valuable an instrument in the contentions of party, ever to be put aside; and the animalcules, duly magnified to the frightful size required, were turned into first-rate electioneering agents.
Call them substance and form if you please, but these are not the reciprocally exclusive substance and form to which the two contentions must refer.
And on the other hand, if the substance and the form referred to are not in the poem, then both the contentions are false, for its poetic value lies in itself.
And this question we are compelled to raise, because we have to deal with the two contentions that the poetic value lies wholly or mainly in the substance, and that it lies wholly or mainly in the form.
The criticism that applies to the first of the above contentions applies mutatis mutandis to the second.
Passing by these contentions as unmeaning or irrelevant and seeing nothing but irreconcilable contradiction between the conceptions of the world as immutable law and a self-determining subject pragmatism (q.
The contentions between the schools, which extended to various practical matters, brought about wide divergence in the views with regard to the Law and life.
When Providence has decreed that a State shall be destroyed, no event is more certain to hasten its fall than the contentions between two rival parties for the possession of the throne.
Yes, John," I answered; "I have seen and heard so many contentions and arguments of a like nature that I cannot say your supposition is not justified.
These contentionsinvolve the supposition that Mars is still in the stage when volcanic action is prevalent, and also that what have hitherto been supposed to be desert lands are really fields of ice.
Would he not have appealed, against the contentions of the Judaizers in Galatia, to so signal a recognition of his apostolic authority?
This conclusion might be overthrown if certain recent contentions should prove to be correct with regard to the second of the elements in Paulinism which are being derived from pagan religion.
He was the friend and companion of Wilfrid in his contentions and troubles, and, after his death, he wrote a biography of him in Latin.
On a certain day it happened that I was very much harassed with the contentions and worries of certain secular cares, in the discharge of this episcopal function.
You will probably be troubled with various little jealousies and contentions over mere trifles, and your health will be menaced through worry.
To dream of a razor, portends disagreements and contentions over troubles.
If the waters are muddy or tumultuous, there will be disagreeable and jealous contentions in your life.
To dream of your father-in-law, denotes contentions with friends or relatives.
To dream of a city hall, denotescontentions and threatened law suits.
To dream of distributing handbills over the country, is a sign of contentions and possible lawsuits.
To see a broken ring order will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings, such as jealouscontentions often cause.
To see hares chased by dogs, denotes trouble and contentions among your friends, and you will concern yourself to bring about friendly relations.
To dream of intermarrying, denotes quarrels and contentions which will precipitate you into trouble and loss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contentions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
