Sentence examples for contingent held from inspiring English sources

The Australian contingent held foam fingers.

I remember when my Gen X contingent held the honor.

(Interestingly, across the Charles River in Cambridge, an Anglophilic Ruskinite contingent held sway: Harvard professor Charles Herbert Moore berated Hunt and Millet in the Boston papers, calling Millet's work "loose and meaningless dashes of paint", in a vitriolic attack reminiscent of that by Ruskin upon Whistler, which resulted in the celebrated trial in London in 1878).

In addition, early mind-brain identity theorists insisted that these identities, while contingent, hold by virtue of natural (scientific) law.

Early on September 18, Brown's troops surprised a British contingent holding some prisoners near the Lake George landing, while a detachment of his troops sneaked up Mount Defiance, and captured most of the sleeping construction crew.

A chief's power in Ojibwa society was based on persuasion and consensus; it was contingent, holding only as long as the community of elders, including the women, chose to respect and follow the chief's lead.

A large contingent still held Gori, astride the country's most important road.

But the special forces contingent was held up in UAE because Iraq would not give the unit the legal protection Australia demanded.

One person close to Jordan said he was more impressed by the recruiting efforts of Nowitzki, who came off vacation to join the Mavericks contingent that held a dinner meeting with Jordan and later outlined its plans for him during a more formal 21/2-hour presentation.

A downgrade would effectively end both insurer's business, analysts said, because the quality of their guarantee was contingent on holding the top ratings.

A country that makes getting your wages contingent on holding acceptable political opinions has gone a long way down the same road that Germany went, and if that isn't, in embryo, what Stackpole Sons are doing, we don't know dictatorial methods when we see them.