Examples of contingent

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I take measure on her method of viewing an artwork, and understand sonic memory material to perform just such a contingent projection, 'body and soul'.
However, it must be understood that the relationship is contingent and not necessary.
Let p be the claim that there exists at least one contingent being.
In its place, we should adopt a more moderate principle regarding what is needed to account for contingent states of affairs.
Since q is a personal explanation, q will explain p in terms of the intentional action of either a contingent or a necessary being.
Thus, it can be inferred, in conjunction with (13), that : (14) q is a contingent proposition that reports the intentional action of a necessary being.
Earlier, we showed that human purposes for objects seem to be partial and contingent.
A confiscatory tax on benefits above the guaranteed level can be absorbed into the state-contingent tax shown in equation (6).
The state-contingent tax is still given by equation (6).
On the other hand, deferring retirement age increases the value couples give life annuities with contingent survivor benefit.
Hall suggests that the fully realised sense of self is only a momentary, contingent settlement.
Contingent reasons, in particular the presence of new singers, were a more direct cause.
If all political institutions and nationalisms are contingent to an era, how does one account for the survival of historically defined monarchies?
Accountability in foreign language prog rammes is often contingent on a compar ison of standardised test scores before and after the prog ramme of instruction.
Identities are known to be often multiple and contingent.
Bishops and abbots were expected to produce substantial contingents.
On each occasion, she is unsure that the intervention will be for the good - because she cannot know future contingents.
The historical pattern of these reform contingents is closely reflected in public social spending innovations and legislation.
However, as the harvest drew near, such contingents quickly deserted the rebel camp and returned to their fields.
With these contingents of officials and this training we are able to give a start to the embryonic organisation of our armed forces.
As a response, large contingents of the provincial police and paramilitary forces were deployed by the state.
Warriors could use also connections with some government officers or military contingents to obtain ammunition.
Another way of putting this is to say that the parallel between anti-realism about counterfactuals of freedom and anti-realism about future-tense contingents is only superficial.
According to him, there are no truth value gaps for future contingents.
The latter include rare photos of the last kings and contingents of women soldiers.
Prophets, however, are favored to receive such knowledge, which includes knowledge of future contingents, in their waking hours.
Instead of shrinking the changes to pension budgets, which would coincide with their ideological economic agenda, legislatures with larger right contingents increase these adjustments.
Here the authors consider public legislative sessions, minority representation, and provide detailed data about parties and their legislative contingents.
Aristophanes engineers the entrance of his two choruses, of old men and old women, so as to create a spectacular clash between male and female contingents.
All of these units were close to one or other border of the colony and could, when necessary, quickly raise sizeable military contingents to counterbalance the forces of independent neighbors.
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