Because ability level, location/teacher, and grade level were all highly contingent (contingency coefficients of 0.8, p <.001), we chose to focus analyses only on ability levels.
All that can be observed is a succession of political experiments whose outcomes are highly contingent.
This sort of study is almost always tentative and highly contingent.
This is the final lesson of the late bloomer: his or her success is highly contingent on the efforts of others.
But doesn't it seem in hindsight highly contingent -- mighty improbable, in fact -- that a Democrat with F.D.R.'s supreme political skills happened to occupy the White House then?
"It introduces a variable that is highly contingent on luck and fortuity to drive sentences," he said, and it may steer the courts away from "considered assessments" of blame and punishment.
The American and Russian ambassadors openly lobbied on behalf of their favoured firms and the companies themselves tried to outdo one another by signing highly contingent contracts with local suppliers to sweeten their offers.
But as these two thoughtful books show, the actual conduct of that pursuit is highly contingent and political.Daniel Greenberg's "Science, Money and Politics" is the culmination of 40 years of pounding the science-policy beat.
It is also clear that any ECB measures will be at the very front of yield curves, implying the EFSF/ESM would be the only mechanism for longer-maturity activity, which of course remains highly contingent on the ruling[s] of the German constitutional court in September.
If Bayle doubts, he does so on a highly contingent and non-theoretical basis.
Our evaluation also indicates that results are highly contingent on the nature of the data.
