Sentence examples for contingent may from inspiring English sources

But the party's much bigger "tea-party" contingent may make it even harder to strike deals then.

A small foreign contingent may remain in a few bases around the country, but on a non-combat mission, with a mandate only to train Afghan forces.

While Twelves from France, Germany, Norway and Sweden are all planning to race at the Jubilee, the largest single contingent may be en route from Newport, R.I., which has become a Mecca for the sleek, sloop-rigged yachts.

While a criminal contingent may use the site to disguise identities, its creators point to a wider group of legitimate users including journalists, activists, law enforcement professionals, whistleblowers and businesses.

The American contingent may have missed out on this year's Man Booker prize, but next year could be a different story after it was announced that a new novel by Jonathan Franzen, a decades and continents-spanning "multigenerational American epic", will be released next autumn.

At least 55% are women, but the female contingent may be higher because 12% did not identify gender.

A fundamental part of Parmenides' claim is that what must be (cannot not-be, as Parmenides puts it) is more knowable than what is merely contingent (what may or may not be), which can be the object only of belief.

Contingent characteristics may not be necessary but may have an influence in certain circumstances.

With regard to jus ad bellum, contingent pacifists may reject the legitimacy of the authority who is fighting, they may claim that war is not being fought as a last resort, or they may deny that the war is being fought for a just cause.

Despite his larger parliamentary contingent, he may find governing harder in his second term than his first.

In the absence of any guiding power, individuals are condemned to freedom (hence responsibility), forced to forge their own lives, however insecure and contingent these may be, and to give them meaning by commitment to a course of action.