Sentence examples for contingencies of from inspiring English sources

"They play to test the contingencies of their world".

*Conduct "small-scale contingencies of limited duration in other areas of the world".

Their poems reflected the contingencies of their own lives; they would never truly be finished.

White lines and boxes channel them, imposing structure on contingencies of movement, herding chance into patterns".

"The contingencies of war are unpredictable," said Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.

Second, the unique contingencies of history, not the laws of physics, set many properties of complex biological systems.

Some words alter because of the stray contingencies of time, others because of the specificities of political history.

I tend to think that the contingencies of Cal's genetic condition would trump those of any other affiliation.

Contingencies of uncertain probability tend to be of little interest to politicians, who are confident they know the future.

Psychologists would say that unless these "contingencies of reinforcement" are changed, it will be hard to control costs.

I rarely stop to consider that the meaning of a work is to some degree — and maybe, in the end, entirely — captive to the contingencies of history.