It has been a rebel logistics hub since falling to contingents of the Free Syrian Army last summer, enabling light weapons to flow through Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and through another corridor from Tripoli, on Lebanon's northern coast.
For Pavlov, the emphasis fell on the contingent, provisional nature of the association — which enlisted other reflexes he believed to be natural and unvarying.
Although there are some staunch supporters of Microsoft, the most vocal fanboy contingent falls firmly in the anything-but category.
The two contingents would fall under one overall commander.
Tomkins paid around $112m for the gun maker but will sell a firm suffering from falling sales and with contingent liabilities.
Then again, passing the press centre itself, a mere 20 minutes after having driven off from it, felt like the sort of familiarity that could breed contempt; and by the time a three-point turn was being performed on some farflung perimeter, it had fallen to the British contingent to apologise to their foreign counterparts for the likely conduct of their nation during these Games.
Frank Luntz, the consultant who helped write the language of the Contract With America, a manifesto of conservative principles that helped the Republicans win the House of Representatives in 1994, falls into the "no consequence" contingent.
Sources familiar with the deal said the exact figure could vary because some of the payment would be in Ctrip shares that can rise or fall in value, while some is contingent on performance.
Ockham's answer was that even though God's foreknowledge is past, its content is future, and the past truth of future contingent propositions does not fall under the necessity of the past (Sent. I.38.1 (587), Tractatus de praedestinatione 515 516).
Many also think that there is a problem with this position theologically, because it seems to make the coming of Jesus something contingent on Adam's fall.
When Bangui fell to the antibalaka, a large contingent escaped to the town of Bambari, at the edge of the traditional Muslim homeland in the north and east.
