Sentence examples for a very contingent from inspiring English sources

"It's a very contingent offer," Mr. Loss said.

My guess is that it was a very contingent event: bad luck for Obama on the business cycle, compounded by his own team's mistakes, plus a weirdly ineffective defense of health reform.

Were it alternatively to be taken as referring to the ability of a maxim to pass the filter of actual public debate and be accepted by its participants, the test would then have a very contingent outcome, depending on the real public we are facing.

That's all very contingent, and too complicated for a Sunday night.

I will say she does represent a very real contingent in prison.

Haykel confirmed by e-mail that the Iraq War was the kind of thing that he had in mind when he said, in the ThinkProgress interview, that ISIS is "a product of very contingent, contextual, historical factors," and that "there is nothing predetermined in Islam that would lead to ISIS".

It remains very contingent, vulnerable to a preoccupation with the past and to isolated events.

"They was a very strong contingent of visual artists around the Ramones," explains show curator Marc Miller.

They had a very strong contingent of security people, but we managed to occupy the site for hours.

I was part of a (very) small contingent of fathers in a crowd that seemed largely composed of mothers, daughters, sisters and girlfriends.

The crowd had travelled from many places, including a very large contingent of finance workers from the Prudential in Indonesia, part of a 600-strong group on a work trip to London, many of them now lining Windsor's streets and wildly waving union flags.