The Mayor and his lawyers contended throughout the trial that he was tricked into smoking the drug.

In 1997, the number was 7,747, under a new city program intended to weed out families whom the Mayor contends are not really homeless.

The case did not involve four employees, as the Mayor contended.

Such a financial history may well have disqualified the agency from getting those welfare contracts, as the Mayor now contends.

The Mayor contends that such a plan has little teeth because diplomats would be allowed to keep their license plates.

The Mayor also contended that efforts to save the base are probably futile anyway.

The Mayor contends that's because they're working for political ends.

The corpses would have been too much for the children, the Mayor contends.

But police officials and the Mayor contended that the change merely reflected a shift in strategy.

But the Mayor contends that unless diplomats face the loss of their plates, they may not be inclined to pay up.