He warns that singular, generalizable concepts or measures of trust will necessarily overlook the context-specific, dynamic and contingent qualities of these relationships which give meaning to the trust concept.
It was that direct hit of the imagining mind that distinguished true art, registering the flux of life, its contingent, temporal quality, the buddings and sheddings that gave human existence its majestic poignancy.
Life-extending treatments may be very valuable (and hence should be provided) but, crucially, value is contingent on quality of life and life should not be extended for the sake of it.
Courtship activity of individual males was contingent on the quality of their assigned territory, and therefore, courtship may not only indicate intrinsic male quality.
Female preferences covaried with male courtship effort, but the observation that courtship rates of individual males were contingent on the quality of their territory suggests that courtship effort is not directly dependent on male quality.
The stability and performance of these devices are contingent on the quality of the interfaces.
However, our findings underline the fact that the impact of innovative communication on the level of project learning is contingent upon the quality of the planning stage.
The model is estimated based on data on trips taken by anglers (travel cost data) and on angler statements about how they would respond to changes in fishing quality (contingent behavior data).
Limited evidence suggests vulnerability of fish to fire is contingent upon the quality of affected habitats, the amount and distribution of habitat (habitat fragmentation), and habitat specificity of the species in question.
The learning efficiency, however, is contingent upon the quality of the reference training sets, although the algorithms we employ are chosen for their robustness to false examples in the references.
