Sentence examples for contingent status from inspiring English sources

Now we've made it into a much more contingent status, where people can no longer feel sure that fundamental rights won't be taken away".

Microsoft's temps may feel their contingent status more keenly than other temps, largely because the software giant's well-known policy of giving stock options to employees has made many of the temps' co-workers millionaires, thanks to Microsoft's soaring stock price.

The existence of exceptions by itself seems to secure the contingent status of relations between P1 and P2.

Here the problem with (2) and (3) would be the following: according to the contingent status of (4*), there are possible worlds where 'ceteris paribus, P1 → P2' is false.

With respect to metaphysics, he took the contingent status of the principle of equality of cause and effect to be evidence that the laws of motion and force are themselves contingent, and thus he argued that the elegance of the laws of nature provides evidence of God's benevolent design of the universe.

A divine being cannot possess contingent modal status: if God exists, then he is necessary, and if he does not exist, then he is impossible.

Tax deductions for dependents (particularly children) should not be contingent on marital status, but on dependent status which makes things fair for single parents.

It continues the modern evolution of sovereignty from an absolute condition to a status contingent upon behavior: States will treat other states as sovereign if they uphold certain responsibilities.

Because UI is contingent on employment status, it is implicitly an employment tax, as it is in the U.K. The U.S. cash-benefit system has, at times, included additional kinds of assistance, as noted below.

(Bourdieu 1977, 164) The enormous influence of philosophical projects such as Kumārila's, that is, arguably had the effect of masking the specifically located and interested character particularly of Brahmanical claims to authority, giving historical and contingent claims the status that goes with their supposedly just reflecting the way things are.

These laws are defined as benefits, rights and privileges that are contingent on marital status.