Sentence examples for contingent positions from inspiring English sources

Many of those laid-off scientists remain unemployed and, as we recently noted, the pharmaceutical ecosystem now includes increasing numbers of scientists working in contingent positions.

When also factoring in graduate students, 73percentt of academic laborers are in contingent positions.

The Russians have also agreed to withdraw their troops from Georgia proper and return their "peacekeeping" contingent to positions held before the fighting.

It in effect becomes a contingent epistemological position rather than the necessary metaphysical doctrine it purports to be.

Metal oxide semiconductors (MOSs) for the OSCs can be p-type and n-type materials, contingent on the position of the conduction band and valence band.

Previous research has shown that spinally transected rats will learn to maintain a flexion response when administered shock contingent upon leg position.

He returned to the Balkans with the ARRC during the Kosovo War, during which he famously refused to obey an order from American General Wesley Clark, his immediate superior in the NATO chain of command, to block the runways of Pristina Airport and isolate the Russian contingent that was positioned there.

The display contingent to gaze position updating required 1 ms to receive a sample from the eye-tracker, less than 7 ms to calculate the texture including the background and the Gaussian mask and between 0 and 6 ms to refresh the screen.

"They made it clear that if our position was that we were unwilling to move beyond 50 percent, there was nothing else to talk about," said Silver, who was leading the N.B.A. contingent in place of Commissioner David Stern, who was ill.

(These positions are contingent, of course, and cases this year may weaken the Court's resolve).

In addition, academic tenure, another traditional defense that has helped some researchers weather attacks, is available to a dwindling percentage of academics in today's world of temporary, soft-money research positions and contingent faculty appoints, Dreger notes. .