Sentence examples for called a contingent from inspiring English sources

One technique, called a contingent liability tax shelter, is being sold to companies that owe a capital gains tax and that have a deferred tax loss on their books.

A tangent cone in Definition 1.5 is also called a contingent cone.

It just has an estimate from a consulting company about what might be there, called a "contingent resource estimate," of which we are quite skeptical.

It's called a "contingent election," the details of which are found in the 12th Amendment.

Reciprocal behaviour (item 5) is a form of exchange, commonly referred to as a quid pro quo and forms the basis of what is called "a contingent relationship".

But Marc Groz, a financial risk expert I've gotten to know, has what I think is a more intriguing approach, which he calls a "contingent commitment facility".

Mr. Fay called a Turkish contingent seeking to march for the first time, to honor the food shipments that Turkey sent Ireland during the potato famine.

Indeed, at root, a human-capital contract is what's called an income-contingent loan: how much you pay back depends on how much you earn.

El Halaby lost his next match, 3-0 to James Willstrop (No. 5 in the world), despite having what the tournament Web site called a "roaring fan contingent" that included Princeton alumni.

Serra calls it "a contingent phenomenon, but I don't program it," he adds.

Despite the many hardships of living here, it has become a sacred duty among many young South Koreans to defend the islets from what Senior Inspector Lee Kwang-sup, commander of the police contingent, calls a "mean, vulgar and unrepentant nation" across the sea.