"contingent about" is not correct and not usable in written English.
Instead, you could use the phrase "contingent upon" or "dependent upon", which both mean the same thing. Example: Her success in the competition was contingent upon her hard work and dedication.
There is nothing historically contingent about a parent's grief.
· They form the second biggest contingent, about 20, being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay.
Britain, which has the second-largest contingent, about 9,000 troops, said in December that it was "possible" that its forces would start leaving this year.
Kenny argues that "there's something largely, sometimes overwhelmingly, contingent about Swanberg's cinema," and he's right: Swanberg's documentary-infused, improvisational (but far from haphazard) video fictions are a crucial challenge to the artfulness of many other filmmakers' work.
What awareness do societies show regarding what is contingent about their deepest commitments?
But insofar as this capacity depends in no way on anything particular or contingent about ourselves, we owe similar respect to all other persons in virtue of their capacity.
That should trim the Labour contingent by about ten.
It is to be rejected in particular in relation to such propositions as, "there will be a sea-battle on 1/1/2100"; that is, in relation to propositions about future contingents, about what is neither necessary nor impossible.
Gaveston had played a key role at Edward's coronation, provoking fury from both the English and French contingents about the earl's ceremonial precedence and magnificent clothes, and about Edward's apparent preference for Gaveston's company over the Isabella's at the feast.
The Trenton outpost was manned by about 1,500 men of a Hessian brigade under the command of Johann Rall, and the Bordentown outpost was manned by Hessians and the British 42nd Regiment contingents, about 2,000 troops in all, under the command of the Hessian Colonel Carl von Donop.
Cleburne County, Ark., about 60 miles north of Little Rock, attracts a sizable contingent from Memphis, about 120 miles to the east.
