Contingency Sentence Examples

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  • This type of contingency was not one we planned for.

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  • Bernstorff was bound by treaty to assist Russia in such a contingency, but he took care that the assistance so rendered should be as trifling as possible, to avoid offending Great Britain and Prussia.

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  • The British admiral, when informed that the French were at sea, justified Napoleon's estimate of his probable course in such a contingency, by making a useless cruise to Egypt.

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  • This contingency had been studied, and preparations for a new line had begun, during the Austrian offensive in 1916, and Cadorna had ordered the work to be continued during the interval.

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  • And though the Stoic doctrine of determinism did not, when applied to moral problems, advance much beyond the reiteration of arguments derived from the universal validity of the principles of causality, nor the Epicurean counter-assertion of freedom avoid the error of regarding chance as a real cause and universal contingency as an explanation of the universe, it was nevertheless a real step forward to perceive the existence of the problem.

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  • The phenomena of organic production furnish data for a special kind of judgment, which, however, involves or rests upon a quite general principle, that of the contingency of the particular element in nature and its subjectively necessary adaptation to our faculty of cognition.

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  • The notion of contingency arises, according to Kant, from the fact that understanding and sense are distinct, that understanding does not determine the particular of sense, and, consequently, that the principle of the adaptation of the particular to our understanding is merely supplied by reason on account of the peculiarity or limited character of understanding.

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  • The army is already preparing contingency plans to provide cover if the firefighters walk out.

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  • A further deed poll providing for the removal of a General in the contingency of "mental incapacity" or other "unfitness," and for the election of a successor, was executed by Booth in July 1904.

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  • The Anglo-French-Italian agreement of December 1906 contained provisions in view of this contingency.

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  • But inasmuch as the agreement between the acts of Leibnitz's monads is due to a divine pre-established harmony, and the theoretical contingency which in the abstract, i.e.

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  • All relevant workers must be trained in the action to be taken in order to implement the contingency plans made.

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  • No contingency is needed in developer estimates No contingency is necessary as requirements that don't fit are dropped or rescheduled by the Customer.

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  • If an unforeseen contingency arises, the rules will reach a dead end.

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  • His unifying theme - and challenge to conventional theory - is the radical contingency of the metropolis.

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  • These mistakes included their failure to complete adequate contingency and passage planning.

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  • Since the fire the company has reviewed its maintenance procedures and worked with the fire service to examine emergency contingency plans.

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  • One such contingency was the particular location of the human larynx.

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  • However, in most cases, banks are not equipped to evaluate a law practice's rights to costs and fees in contingency fee suits.

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  • They sometimes charge extremely high retainer or contingency fees, substantially reducing the size of the payment recovered by the family.

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  • Thus God's eternal purpose would be dependent on historical contingency.

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  • Oil spill contingency plans will be necessary, together with a broad examination of environmental implications.

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  • The cost of seeking an injunction is met from a council contingency fund.

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  • The contingency borehole has made this pastureland available at a critical time and a lot of families have moved into the area.

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  • Together with Allies, we also have modified the readiness criteria for forces with a nuclear role and terminated standing peacetime nuclear contingency plans.

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  • Once the initial crisis has been dealt with, we will work with clients to provide a longer-term contingency plan.

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  • It would be negligent for the authorities not to make adequate provision for it in their contingency planning in 2006.

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  • If a tenant become bankrupt, his interest passes to his trustee in bankruptcy - unless, as is frequently the case, the lease makes the occurrence of that contingency determine the lease.

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  • In 1859 the Danubian principalities, deliberately left separate by the Congress of Paris, carried out their long-cherished design of union by electing Prince Cuza both in Moldavia and in Walachia, a contingency which the powers had not taken into account, and to which in the end they gave a grudging assent (see Rumania).

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  • He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Indian government made ready for that contingency, the amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.

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  • This connexion is something of an afterthought to distinguish from the potential contingency of the objectively possible the real contingency of the actual, for which the " cause or reason " of Spinoza 6 could not account.

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  • It would be remiss to ignore the small, but growing contingency of Linux users.

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  • The first contingency is that the head of state must have a reserve power to refuse his assent to an unconstitutional act of Parliament.

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  • In a situation where the lawyer is being paid on a contingency basis, the lawyer may not be paid anything for his or her time.

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  • A contingent order for California alimony means that the payments are to continue until a specific event (contingency) occurs.

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  • Contingency management therapy is a voucher-based system where addicts get "points" based on clean drug tests which they can then exchange for items to live a sober life.

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  • The business plan should include reference to insurance provisions to protect the corporation, wherever feasible, along with a contingency plan.

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  • That all changed in the next couple years due to a variety of factors, such as the economy and poor contingency planning.

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  • During exercises, the government's premier contingency operations compound in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee was populated only by maintenance crews and a few relaxed guards.

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  • The pope died on the, 8th of August, while Cesare was still incapacitated, and this unfortunate coincidence proved his ruin; it was the one contingency for which he had not provided.

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  • Williams were confirmed as chief justice of the United States, - a contingency which did not arise.

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  • S is partially identical with P. In the first the fallacy is the indifferent contingency of the conclusion caused by the non-sequitur from a negative premise to an affirmative conclusion; while the second is either a mere repetition of the premises if the conclusion means " S is like P in being M," or, if it means " S is P," a non-sequitur on account of the undistributed middle.

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  • If we are warranted in regarding the Second Person of the Godhead as in very deed " Himself vouchsafing to be made, " that great Becoming cannot well be suspended upon a contingency which might or might not arise; and theologians in general regard the sin of man as such a contingent event.

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  • Agenda items SARS & Pandemic influenza contingency plans - Members were provided with an update on progress on these plans.

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  • The associated Plan Master program helps you draw up a detailed disaster contingency plan.

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  • Walkerdine ' s (1988) concerns about the rational actor in the state who transcends particularity and contingency are well known.

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  • Contingency planning for major notifiable disease outbreaks e.g. rabies, foot and mouth.

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  • The emperor promised to pay Matthias 00,000 florins as a war indemnity, and recognized him as the legitimate king of Hungary on the understanding that he should succeed him if he died without male issue, a contingency at this time somewhat improbable, as Matthias, only three years previously (Dec. 15, 1476), had married his third wife, Beatrice of Naples, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon.

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  • In his Metaphysik (1879), as in his earlier Mikrokosmus (1856-1864), Lotze vindicated the contingency of freedom by assigning to God a miraculous power of unconditional commencement, whereby not only at the very beginning but in the course of nature there may be new beginnings, which are not effects of previous causes, though once started they produce effects according to law.

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  • This contingency explains the vacillating and illogical character of the papal diplomacy with regard to the Byzantine problem, and, inter slid, the opposition of Eugenius III.

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  • The thought of contingency was too easily applied to these attributes, and an unsatisfactory treatment of modality followed.

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  • In view of this contingency the Russian and French military authorities studied the military questions in common, and the result of their labours was the preparation of a military convention, which was finally ratified in 1894.

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  • They were remiss to ignore the small, but growing contingency of users.

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