Sentence examples for contingent holding from inspiring English sources

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.

The Australian contingent held foam fingers.

I remember when my Gen X contingent held the honor.

Atop a hill on the other end of the valley, Reno's battalion, which had been reinforced by Benteen's contingent, held out against a prolonged assault until the next evening, when the Indians broke off their attack and departed.

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

But Asner's contingent holds that production of a hit charity record is just the beginning of altruism.

If Democrats can flip one or both of those seats, their path to the majority will be easier, contingent on holding seats.

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.

In other words, on an indirect realist approach, they are distinct existences: qualia or sense-data come to represent public objects and their sensible properties in virtue of some contingent relations holding between them (resemblance or causation).