Sentence examples for dangerous contingent from inspiring English sources

Among the problems at Abu Ghraib, the report said, was "a potentially dangerous contingent" of Iraqi guards who had given inmates contraband, weapons and information and had helped at least one inmate to escape.

However, a different, more dangerous contingent is joining this struggle now.

And there are many more SPEs out there, notably off the balance sheets of companies which securitise (ie, repackage and sell on to investors) large chunks of their assets.Another example of off-balance-sheet deceit is the dry-sounding yet potentially dangerous phenomenon of commitments, a variety of contingent liability.

MARJA, Afghanistan — Three months after arriving in the most dangerous area of Afghanistan's Helmand Province, a contingent of specialized Afghan police officers has logged a mediocre performance while being almost wholly dependent on American supervision and support, Westerners who work with the officers said.

In the novel, Esther aids Rex in his mission to track down a CIA contingent who have gone rogue with dangerous alien weaponry.

On Strauss's reading of Halevi, philosophy leads to the dangerous denial of an absolute morality that is not contingent upon allegiance to a specific group.

Gen Houghton said: "Defence has quite rightly focused on Afghanistan in recent years but getting back to a contingent posture that offers genuine political choices for the dangerous and uncertain world we face is now a clear priority".

But those landings were deemed too dangerous, so later flights were made during the day with large contingents of fighter planes providing cover.

If so then it has a dangerous element to it, for if the subsequent defeat was in some way contingent on such a train of thought, then it is a dangerous one: nothing boosts a side more than actually winning games.

But Schmitt suggests that this secular version of a negative political anthropology is open to be transformed into the view that man, though by nature dangerous, is perfectible or into the view that man's dangerous behavior is a mere contingent consequence of a mistaken form of social organization (PT 53 66; L 31 9).

What about contingent liabilities?