Sentence examples for contingent cause from inspiring English sources

We think that petitioner may overstate matters a bit; it appears under the U.C.C. that receipt of the check provides a contingent cause of action, the contingency being a subsequent dishonoring of the check and a demand to the drawer for payment.

Thus it must be replaced by (3) a determination in the contingent cause toward acting, both for the future to be known and for us to act.

True to form, the punk-rock contingent caused some stir.

But it happened for highly specific and contingent causes, and the means of remedying them have not yet passed.

Inside the Stade Vélodrome there were chaotic scenes after the final whistle when Russian fans charged at the England contingent, causing them to flee.

He does not here discuss the unintelligibility of a one-directional infinite series of contingent causes or of a circular series of contingent causes.

Earlier in the year, there was talk of Ron Paul's contingent causing trouble, and even of a brokered convention.

Finally, it should be noted in 7 that if the contingent being identified in 1 is the universe, the necessary being cannot provide a natural explanation for it, for we know of no natural, non-contingent causes and laws or principles from which the existence of the universe follows.

Howrey had begun acceding to clients' demands for flat, deferred or contingent fees, causing income to become clumpy and unpredictable.

This Article pulls back on the enthusiastic embrace of New Governance, instead situating it as a contingent model of cause lawyering that complements, rather than replaces, previous advocacy models, including rights-claiming litigation.

We hope they will see the value in asking, "When doesn't this work?" Researching that question will help them decipher the set of circumstances in which managers might find themselves and then frame contingent statements of cause and effect that take those circumstances into account.