Whether or not certain events may have happened some time ago, may not actually be determined until some time in your future -- it may actually be contingent upon actions that have not yet taken place.
"I believe that Mr. Perle should be asked to make a choice between stepping down from the Defense Policy Board or making a commitment not to have any further conact with DOD officials on behalf of a client, not to allow his name to be used in connection with any such contact, and not to accept any fee that is contingent upon an action of the Department of Defense," Mr. Levin wrote.
The legislation is contingent upon federal action approving the cultivation of hemp in Kentucky, or more broadly removing the plant, which looks similar to marijuana but contains low levels of the psychoactive agent THC, from a list of banned substances.
We formally define rewards as behavioral reinforcers if they appear contingent upon an action or response, and, thus, increase the probability of the specific response being executed in the future.
Mechanistically, the regulation of acute energy balance by leptin is contingent upon its action within the central nervous system and, at the molecular level, specifically at long-form LepR (LepRb) (2).
This would require that economic sanctions be relaxed, a step that need not be contingent upon the actions of Iran or any other nation.
The lawsuit, conceived and promoted by longtime Obamacare critics, alleges that Congress intended to make the availability of the Affordable Care Act's financial assistance contingent upon the actions of state officials.
The roles of the PSC were to develop the protocol according to scientific principles, review progress, circumvent practical difficulties, ensure quality control, review the data, plan the analysis and formulate recommendations for future action contingent upon the findings.
The health financing system in the NHD is an input-based financing system rolled out by the Central Ministry of Health in the form of financial support to each district contingent upon an approved annual action plan (3).
Moreover, we chose to use the pp-TMS procedure also on the basis of a previous study showing that pp-TMS (and not sp-TMS) was able to detect modulations of the cortico-spinal system contingent upon processing of hand-action related nouns and verbs [35].
