Some firms account for any contingency that can be imagined with detailed, prearranged crisis plans.
The first contingency that came to mind was the quick spread of the Occupy movement.
"The £377m figure is conservative because there are lumps of contingency that are still attached to the outstanding work.
Meanwhile, legislators are prone to creating policies for political contingency that are often unrealistic and difficult to implement.
If you lose, the endless paths of contingency that might have had you winning are forgotten, and what was very much in doubt suddenly becomes always determined.
He said: "The £377m figure is conservative because there are lumps of contingency that are still attached to the outstanding work.
I understood that she'd just come unexpectedly face to face with big contingency — the thing we'd schemed against and almost beaten, and probably the only contingency that could've risen to eye level and stared us down: the reënlivening of Wally.
Professor Geanakoplos, 51, said the deal for the Convent Avenue house was structured with a contingency that could, in some way that he would not explain, result in a lower price than the one shown on the deed.
The vacated seat would have been filled by a former member of Mr. Barak's coalition who now backs Likud, a contingency that would have made it easier for Mr. Sharon to assemble a majority government without Labor's cooperation.
"To probe deeply but fairly into American policies predating the terrorist attacks is to examine the scale of American leaders' failure to imagine and plan for a contingency that was not, in fact, unimaginable".
If the argument is that we didn't have a contingency that allowed us, in the space of two hours, to quadruple our manpower, I think we'd say, 'Fair cop.' I don't think you could ask any business to do that.
