The answer to these questions must inevitably speak as loudly about the preoccupations of the film-maker as they do about the contingent issues of phrasing the material and organising the story for a film audience.
The phrase "contingent worker" was coined in 1985 by Audrey Freedman.
Typically, deficit hawks invoke the phrase "contingent liabilities" to call for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, arguing that official government accounting understates the long-term taxpayer costs of such programs.
All you need to know is that when Donald Trump uses this phrase, a contingent of his base hears "Jews".
History starts to seem less like a "rendezvous with destiny" — to use one of Roosevelt's other famous phrases — and more like something contingent, something struggled through, something messy, that could have turned out very differently.
On a basic level, a novel, unlike an epic or a myth, is essentially made up of the contingent stuff of life and language: turns of phrase, conversations, digressions, descriptions, subplots.
They phrase the argument in terms of contingent and necessary propositions.
It appears to be a brute fact that there just is that indefinitely immense collection of finite and contingent masses or conglomerations of things and processes the phrase "the universe" refers to.
The phrase "the proportions of interneurons that exhibited coherence contingent on trial outcome" was meant to describe the interneuron distributions across the three performance categories (now labeled Correct Trials Only, Incorrect Trials Only, or All Trials).
The last phrase seemed particularly important, as Brady made the tax cut contingent on Republicans keeping the House and Senate ― a prospect that looks unlikely.
In contemporary literature, it is often a shift to a post-catastrophe future that makes the present tangible as a contingent construction (Vermeulen, "Disappearing the Future")—as if in perverse fidelity to a famous phrase (incorrectly) attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek: "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism" (Fisher 2).
