While practitioners of other forms of yoga maintain that competition contradicts the idea of peace and unity, Bikram contends, " Competition is the foundation for all democratic societies.

Although the frontier society was a thing of the past during Alger's career, Geck contends that " the idea of the frontier, even in urban slums, provides a kind of fairy tale orientation in which a Jack mentality can be both celebrated and critiqued ".

Conversely, Joseph Horowitz contends that those who keep the Toscanini legend alive are members of a " Toscanini cult ", an idea not altogether refuted by Frank, but not embraced by him, either.

In these theories of racial origins, monogenism contends that all races have a single origin, while polygenism is the idea that each race has a separate origin.

But divine command theorist Robert Merrihew Adams contends that this idea (" that no actions would be ethically wrong if there were not a loving God ") is one that " will seem ( at least initially ) implausible to many ", and that his theory must " dispel air of paradox.

World-systems analysis contends that capitalism as a historical system formed earlier, that countries do not " develop " in stages, but rather the system does, and these events have a different meaning as a phase in the development of historical capitalism ; namely the emergence of the three ideologies of the national developmental mythology ( the idea that countries can develop through stages if they pursue the right set of policies ): conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism.

The book was also a criticism of the school of Tradition history advanced most notably by Hermann Gunkel and Martin Noth: Van Seters " argues that Noth's ( 1948 ) idea of a " pentateuchal oral tradition " is flawed both historically ( with respect to the history of Israel ) and analogically ( given Noth's comparisons with the development of Icelandic saga ) contends that traces of folkloric structure do not make it inevitable ' that the tradition as a whole, or even parts of it, derive from a pre-literate period '".

" Swain contends that no conductor knew more than Monteux about expressive possibilities in the strings, claiming that " the conductor who doesn't play a stringed instrument simply doesn't know how to get the different sounds ; and the bow has such importance in string playing that there are maybe 50 different ways of producing the same note ".

" He contends that " the Frizzle Fry portion certainly doesn't disappoint ", elaborating that " while sonically the set is top-notch, the camera work could have been better ... few front shots of drummer Alexander are included, so there is no clear view of what he's playing most of the time ", but concludes that " these complaints are small ; Hallucino-Genetics Live 2004 is a faithful representation of the group's reunion tour.

" Owens contends that Plautus was attempting to match the complex mood of the Roman audience riding the victory of the Second Punic War but facing the beginning of a new conflict.

Dahrendorf contends that postcapitalist society that has institutionalized class conflict into state and economic spheres.

Morris contends that the Arab infiltration into Israel and the Israeli retaliatory response to it set patterns of behavior that were to characterize the Arab-Israeli conflict for decades to come.

the " man against nature " conflict is central to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, where the protagonist contends against a marlin.

Glover contends that the conflict between Lex and his father is something very positive for the show, as Lionel's endeavor to bond with Lex and the distrust between them " makes drama ".

Dr. Coser, a sociologist, disagrees with the majority of American sociologists who, he contends, have badly neglected and misunderstood the concept and function of social conflict.

She asserts: " In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness ," and as a result contends that in film a woman is the " bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

And he contends with Trypho over the meaning of a " time " and " times ".

The Free Software Foundation contends that this addition is incompatible with the version 2 of the GPL, but compatible with version 3:

Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still ( 609 ) " evil contends with good.

An example of a modern psilanthropist is Uta Ranke-Heinemann who contends that the virgin birth of Jesus was meant — and should be understood — as an allegory of a special initiative of God, comparable to God's creation of Adam, and in line with legends and allegories of antiquity.

* Thomas Becket contends with Henry II, then leaves England to solicit support from the Pope and the King of France.

" Webb contends that such romantic hits as " Someday My Heart Will Awake " were balanced by " rousing operetta choruses ... and jazz age numbers " while "' Rose of England ' is a stately patriotic piece that stands comparison with Elgar or Walton ".

He further contends that most of the French political and media class are corrupt and out of touch with the real needs of the common people, and conspire to exclude Le Pen and his party from mainstream politics.

Leslie Kurke contends that " Aesop was a popular contender for inclusion in the group "; an epigram of the 6th century CE poet Agathias ( Palatine Anthology 16. 332 ) refers to a statue of the Seven Sages, with Aesop standing before them.

The minister with responsibility was an Orangeman, with a police Orange Lodge ; therefore he contends the RUC could scarcely be unbiased where the Unionist Party or the Orange Order was concerned.

The Christian right contends that morning-after pills such as Plan B and Ella are possible abortifacients, able to interfere with a fertilized egg's implantation in the uterine wall.

In a similar vein, essayist David Quint contends that " with Cleopatra the opposition between East and West is characterized in terms of gender: the otherness of the Easterner becomes the otherness of the opposite sex ".

Shilts contends that Ronald Reagan's administration dragged its feet in dealing with the crisis due to homophobia, while the gay community viewed early reports and public health measures with corresponding distrust, thus allowing the disease to spread and hundreds of thousands of people to needlessly die.

John Zerzan contends the collapse of civilization as having a gradual decrease on population size, with the possibility of people having the need to seek means of sustainability more close to nature.

Corel contends that WordPerfect is the only viable alternative to Microsoft Office with sales 70 times more than Lotus ' SmartSuite.

In the third book Fludd contends that those filled with the spirit of Christ may rise before his second coming.

Because the NATO actions in Kosovo were taken after consultation with all members, were approved by a NATO vote, and were undertaken by several NATO members, NATO contends that its actions were in accordance with its charter.

In this he contends that only the Epistle to Galatians, First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians and Epistle to the Romans are genuinely Pauline, and that the Paul of the Acts of the Apostles is a different person from the Paul of these genuine Epistles, the author being a Paulinist who, with an eye to the different parties in the Church, is at pains to represent Peter as far as possible as a Paulinist and Paul as far as possible as a Petrinist.

" In contrast, Valerie Steele contends, " Paglia has been attacked as an academic conservative, in league with Allan Bloom and other defenders of the ' Western canon ,' but no conservative would be so explicitly approving of pornography, homosexuality, and rock-and-roll.

Other theoretical work contends that, " A sharp interface between quark matter and the vacuum would have very different properties from the surface of a neutron star "; and, addressing key parameters like surface tension and electrical forces that were neglected in the original study, the results show that as long as the surface tension is below a low critical value, the large strangelets are indeed unstable to fragmentation and strange stars naturally come with complex strangelet crusts, analogous to those of neutron stars.

Hyman contends that even if psi experiments could be designed that would regularly reproduce similar deviations from chance, they would not necessarily prove psychic functioning.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

Whereas Plato's demiurge is good wishing good on his creation, gnosticism contends that the demiurge is not only the originator of evil but is evil as well.

Bates ( 1979 ) contends that the Oromo " were a very ancient race, the indigenous stock, perhaps, on which most other peoples in this part of eastern Africa have been grafted ".

Roger Penrose contends that the foundations of mathematics can't be understood absent the Platonic view that " mathematical truth is absolute, external and eternal, and not based on man-made criteria ... mathematical objects have a timeless existence of their own ..."

He contends that Paine draws on the Puritan tradition in which " theology was wedded to politics and politics to the progress of the kingdom of God ".

One source contends that he also continued to work for Canaris and the Abwehr, paving the way for the Wehrmacht's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.

The biologist Lynn Margulis, famous for her work on endosymbiosis, contends that symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution.

Bob Kobres in Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse ( 1992 ) contends that the swastika like comet on the Han Dynasty silk comet atlas was labeled a " long tailed pheasant star " ( Di-Xing ) because of its resemblance to a bird's foot or track.

First published in 1982, Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language contends that the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations centers on a devastating rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language.

He also contends that they are all based on subjectivist ethics, in which ethical conduct is based on the subjective or intuitive experience of an individual or group.

" A spy-agency analysis released Thursday contends a second attack on U. S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin never happened, casting further doubt on the leading rationale for escalation of the Vietnam War.

Taylor contends that " Radical environmentalism is best understood as a new religious movement that views environmental degradation as an assault on a sacred, natural world.

They practice a style of whole or " total " body adjustment which contends that structural strains and patterns, through effects on circulation, reflexes and sensory feedback, precede pathological tissue states.

The whole is reminiscent of earlier No Wave bands, such as Mars, and the work of Swans ' contemporaries, like Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr Idols ; but Raggett contends that " early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since ".

He contends that some so-called gurus claim special spiritual insights based on personal revelation, offering new ways of spiritual development and paths to salvation.

" Moreover, she contends that it is precisely the isolation forced on Dissenters by others that marks them out, not anything inherent in their form of worship.

He contends Americans themselves are too critical and take for granted the blessings bestowed on them by living within the borders of the United States.

Franklin contends that Millikan's exclusions of data did not affect the final value of e that Millikan obtained but concedes that there was substantial " cosmetic surgery " that Millikan performed which had the effect of reducing the statistical error on e. This enabled Millikan to quote the figure that he had calculated e to better than one half of one percent ; in fact, if Millikan had included all of the data he threw out, it would have been to within 2 %.