The phrase "avoid contingent" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing the avoidance of conditions or dependencies, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "In our planning, we must avoid contingent factors that could derail our progress."
Alternatives: "steer clear of conditions" or "eliminate dependencies".
Other purpose theorists contend that having been created by God for a reason would be the only way that our lives could avoid being contingent (Craig 1994; cf. Haber 1997).
Scanlon thus requires another idea to explain the strictness of contractual obligation, and it is difficult to see how the required idea might simultaneously avoid invoking contingent background conditions that support only some promises but not all and avoid importing the obligation to keep contract that requires a defense.
The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans to examine mechanisms of declarative memory enhancement when subjects were motivated to avoid punishments that were contingent on forgetting.
Besides, de Zwaan and Müller [ 45] suggest a time and not a symptom contingent schedule to avoid reinforcement of complaints.
With so many players World Cup-bound next summer, Cushing must somehow find a way to avoid the fatigue that afflicted his England contingent so badly last spring.
The Bush administration persuaded the Greeks to ask for NATO sponsorship for the American Special Forces contingent as a way to avoid stirring a political storm here, NATO officials said.
Here, we review studies of habitat choices by multiple, sympatric prey species at risk from a shared predator to show that the defensive decision to avoid or select predator-rich space is contingent on prey escape behaviour.
Recent signals by FASB proposing to avoid "prediction" in future revisions to the contingent liability accounting standard, FAS 5, bode poorly for the prospect of sound management and disclosure of these issues.
In Philadelphia two weeks ago, with the city intent on maintaining an upbeat appearance for the Republican National Convention, large contingents of police clearly worked to avoid full-scale clashes with street demonstrators.
But when we ask what we mean by saying that God exists, we have to negate aspects of material existence in order to avoid speaking of Him as if he were a contingent being.
