main contention

collocation in English

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk
/meɪn/us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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contention
noun
uk
/kənˈten.ʃən/us
/kənˈten.ʃən/
the disagreement that results from ...
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(Definition ofmainandcontentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmain contention

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Mymaincontentionis that coherence with intuitions adds no consequentialist value to the associated acts.
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A furthermaincontentionis the risk attached to a defined-contribution versus a defined-benefit scheme.
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Themaincontentionof this review and of the emerging discipline of geometric integration is that this approach, although tempting, is at best incomplete, at worst badly misguided.
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Hermaincontentionis that the community schools survived for so long because they were malleable + different governmental and non-governmental players could use them to fulfill their own interests.
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Mymaincontentionis that we should not apply two scales of compensation for the same kind of property.
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The improvement in trade which has resulted from rearmament has really proved ourmaincontention.
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It cannot be done, but that is not mymaincontention.
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He himself seems to have fallen into an error which did not vitiate hismaincontentionbut which we might as well put right.
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Ourmaincontentionon this mass of orders is that, behind the genial facade of the uprating, there lurks a series of pitfalls.
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I am not saying this in adverse criticism of hismaincontentionas to what should be our long-range view of these matters.
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I agree, but that does not vitiate mymaincontention.
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That seemed to be themaincontentionof his argument.
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Mymaincontentionis that it prevents our getting down to the real problem.
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Those quotations bring me to mymaincontentiontonight.
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Themaincontentionthat he is now making is going to assist those who make covenants as a means of tax avoidance.
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Themaincontentionin those days was about raising the age at the other end of the juvenile court scale, from 16 to 17.
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I wholeheartedly agree with hismaincontentionand the graphic picture which he painted of the vital necessity of railways to people in the countryside.
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He appeared to have missed themaincontentionthat has been urged upon him.
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What is themaincontentionof all labour students of this subject?
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