Philosophers have long thought that some truths were necessary while others were contingent; in the twentieth-century, under the influence of logical positivism, this was taken to be the distinction between those statements that were "true in virtue of meaning" (hence necessarily true) and those that were "true in virtue of fact" (hence only contingently true).
It remains to be seen whether he might go even further by withdrawing Italy's contingent in Iraq, the third-largest after America's and Britain's.There is another possible explanation for Mr Berlusconi's behaviour: that he is trying to avoid the backwash from the Plame affair in America.
As the U.N. struggles to fill more police and military positions with women, one success story has been India's 125-member contingent in Liberia, the first all-female U.N. force, which spent six months training Liberian police in 2007.
That is, assuming God's contingent creation in the first place, and His 'general influence' that keeps the chain of causation in existence, natural causation works necessarily, and so with all of an effect's causes taken together, what happens in nature is necessary.
The British contingent is the second largest in Afghanistan, and the Americans see a British willingness to commit more soldiers as indispensable, politically and militarily, if NATO troop levels are to rise to the level needed for General McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy, which focuses on protecting Afghan civilians against the rising threat of the Taliban.
Scouting grew quickly and in 1924 Rhodesia and Nyasaland sent a large contingent to the second World Scout Jamboree in Ermelunden, Denmark.
They started the French Open with a 10-0 record, and had Serena Williams won her first match, the Americans would have had the biggest contingent of female players in the second round since 2003.
Mr. Brown told Parliament that Britain planned a "fundamental change of mission" at the turn of the year for the 4,100 troops it has in its Iraq contingent, the second largest group of foreign troops serving in Iraq.
This does not mean that the natural effect is really and truly contingent without qualification in the first way, however, because if we take all of the natural effect's causes into account, the effect will necessarily follow, or not follow, as the case may be.
Rather, assimilation first requires refuting assumptions the culture makes about the immigrant based on race, and in this sense assimilation requires the erasure of one's preexisting cultural identity even though that identity wasn't contingent upon race in the first place.
