Disputing Sentence Examples

One of them, who followed his father's profession, made himself the champion of the others in disputing Leonardo's claim to his share, first in the paternal inheritance, and then in that which had been left to be divided between the brothers and sisters by an uncle.

Although there is no disputing that the nicotine found in tobacco is incredibly addictive, many people who try to quit smoking or chewing tobacco encounter more problems with the emotional aspect of tobacco usage.

He ought to hold, and in disputing with Descartes he did apparently hold, that the evidence of the senses is the only convincing evidence; yet he maintains, and from his special mathematical training it was natural he should maintain, that the evidence of reason is absolutely satisfactory.

If the person disputing parentage refuses to take a test, the Child Support Agency can treat them as the child's parent.

The servants ran noisily about the house and yard, shouting and disputing.

Disputing errors is a lengthy process but worth it.

They will have to come up with a way to explain their choice of diet while disputing common misconceptions.

No matter how many pounds she may have shed, there's no disputing the fact that Osmond has successfully regained her figure and kept the weight off.

Send off a letter when you first see errors and begin the disputing process.

As soon as he sank into his place on the sofa after two bottles of Margaux he was surrounded, and talking, disputing, and joking began.

Aedh (Hugh) O'Neill, chief of the Cinel Eoghain, or lord of Tir-Eoghain (Tir-Owen, Tyrone) at the end of the 12th century, was the first of the family to be brought prominently into conflict with the Anglo-Norman monarchy, whose pretensions he took the lead in disputing in Ulster.

There, after six days' disputing with Alcuin, he again recanted his heresy.

In the former, JinkOshOtOhi (History of the True Succession of the Divine Monarchs), Kitabatake Chikafusa (1340) undertook to prove that of the two sovereigns then disputing for supremacy in Japan, Go-Daigo was the rightful monarch; in the latter, Taihei-ki (history of Great Peace), Kojima (1370) devoted his pages to describing the events of contemporaneous history.

He was voted guilty by the Commons; but while the Lords were disputing whether the accused peer should have bail, and whether the charges amounted to more than a misdemeanour, parliament was prorogued on the 30th of December and dissolved three weeks later.

A "Christ disputing with the Doctors" of the same period, in the Barberini Gallery at Rome, is recorded to have cost the painter only five days' labour, and is an unsatisfying and illcomposed congeries of heads and hands, both of such strenuous character and individuality as here and there to pass into caricature.

Before supper, Prince Andrew, coming back to his father's study, found him disputing hotly with his visitor.

After much disputing and arguing, Major-General Grekov with two Cossack regiments decided to go with the Polish sergeant.

When the French entered Algeria the sultans of Morocco were disputing the possession of Tlemcen with the Kuluglis, who fought first for themselves and afterwards for France.

But Miloradovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything rather than of what the generals were disputing about.

He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be led along a certain carpet.

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

Pavilliard's description of the " thin little figure, with a large head, disputing and arguing, with the greatest ability, all the best arguments that had ever been used in favour of popery."

We began disputing--Pierre and I--and I lost my temper.