Sentence examples for contingency upon from inspiring English sources

His four years of naval combat service in World War II shaped and informed his determination to live every moment of every day, and to share with his children and grandchildren both the spirit and optimism with which he faced life, and the respect for the hazard and contingency upon which we all breathe but can never fully understand.

The future is also remarkable in its contingency upon the specific social structure from which it emerges and linked to those needs and hopes.

See Roberts (1998). A probabilistic and a necessarian reading of future people's contingency upon our actions can be distinguished (see Parfit's "Time-Dependence Claim" ((1984), 351 52) and, thus, of the scope of the non-identity problem.

(a) As distinguished from the Communist Party case, the contingencies upon which the members' duty to register arises have matured, the petitioners have claimed the privilege, and the Attorney General has rejected such claims.

Here, in contrast, the contingencies upon which the members' duty to register arises have already matured; the Party did not register within 30 days after the order to register became final, and the requisite 60 days since the order became final have elapsed.

§ 890.504 Disposition of contingency reserves upon reorganization or merger of plans.

Humans do need to be involved to watch over the machines and manage trades, but critics wondered why there was not an agreed-upon contingency plan in place to have some of those humans do the watching far away from New York City.

The paradoxical implications of the latter view have been prominently explored by Derek Parfit.[8] The main source of skepticism concerning the very possibility of future people having welfare rights vis-à-vis those currently living rests upon the contingency of future people upon currently living people's decisions and actions.

Prior research has generally shown encouraging results for interventions based on 'Contingency Management' (CM), in which desirable behaviour is encouraged by providing rewards contingent upon the behaviour.

In practice, we use one of the two methods: the exact recursive algorithm and the Monte Carlo method to compute a P-value for each contingency table depending upon the values of k and A. For the Monte Carlo method, 10 10 permutations were used to compute the P-value.

However, unlike a government agency, a private collection agency or attorney will charge a fee based on a set rate or based upon contingency.