The phrase "a specific contingent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular group or subset of people or things that are dependent on certain conditions or circumstances.
Example: "The project will only move forward if a specific contingent of stakeholders agrees to the terms."
Alternatives: "a particular group" or "a designated subset".
The latter spread-of-effect was no greater than in the normal animals, suggesting that the resultant change in behavior following the lesion was not caused by functional compensation but instead by the unmasking of an existing learning system, the influence of which is usually dwarfed by a mechanism to make specific contingent choice-reward associations.
The horror that Voltaire wanted crushed, cruelty in the name of God and civilization, was a specific and contingent thing.
At the end of the second day, each practice team designed a specific time contingent plan in a group discussion with their multidisciplinary members.
In particular, they are suggested to be useful in correcting behaviour which is 'self-rewarding' such as chasing or hunting behaviour [ 10], as they cause a controlled sensation aversive enough to punish undesired behaviour which can be applied at a specific time contingent to the undesired behaviour and at a distance [ 7].
It is surely a sad irony that a system whose motivation is to capture our modal intuitions — most notably, intuitions about contingency — cannot so much as permit us to talk about specific contingent individuals and say of those individuals that they are contingent.
Because so much of the fashion blogosphere is populated by slim, white, wealthy women, and so much of the mainstream press given to the fashion blogosphere centers on that specific contingent.
Evan Cinq-Mars, an expert on the UN and policy adviser at the US-based Conflictor Civiciansaid ConflictheCivic), said the report was particularly significant in naming the specific contingents who were found to have underperformed.
Those who emphasize a strong distinction between mystical experience and subsequent interpretation generally seek out a common core of all mysticism; others insist that experience and interpretation cannot be so easily sundered and that mysticism is in most cases tied to a specific religion and contingent upon its teachings.
Results will suggest factors that are common to all three index conditions and all healthcare systems that included papers reporting factors that are common to long-term conditions (core processes and mechanisms), and factors that are specific to an index condition or a specific healthcare system (contingent processes and mechanisms).
A significant step towards dealing with this issue was taken by Krupnick et al. [ 73], who developed a specific questionnaire for contingent valuation studies of air pollution mortality, and then applied this questionnaire in countries such as Canada, Japan, and the USA.
