If history and art history have any value beyond entertainment and offering us lessons and examples from the past, it is perhaps, like travel, to free us from the tyranny of our own cultural values and make us aware of how contingent and bound by time, culture and geography so many of our preconceptions actually are.
Alaska left Incheon with a contingent of soldiers bound for San Francisco.
After extensive repairs, the ship was finally accepted as a troop transport in February 1776 and embarked a contingent of Hessian mercenaries bound for New York and Rhode Island.
An angry leftwing contingent in the party are bound to demand a shift away from the centre, saying they had warned Clegg repeatedly he was marching the party towards annihilation.
The Morningside Heights neighborhood also has a strong preservation contingent, some members of which are bound to object to the Moneo building.
But even with its minor contingent of black talent, SNL is bound to misstep and offend – such is the nature of comedy.
Of course, monetary policy in America (and perhaps, before long, in other countries) has reached the zero bound and can no longer fill this contingent role.Can other contingent policies be created or enhanced to eliminate tail risks?
8.03am GMT The Associated Press reports that a US military plane carrying relief supplies and a contingent of marines has left the Philippine capital bound for the eastern seaboard.
They are no longer bound to the historical concept of Human history or contingent, era-specific concepts of the world, which prevailed during time and place of their origin.
For this reason, many maximalists make common cause with optimalists to posit another fundamental kind of thing to perform the truth-making role in the case of contingent (atomic) predications: facts that consist in objects, properties and relations bound together; in this case the fact Harry's being golden (Armstrong 1989a: 41997 115 6 115–6; Mellor 1995: 24).
