While sexual responsiveness for men is basically an on-off switch, for women it's more like a Rube Goldberg contraption, full of contingencies and alternate routes.
The actual world is full of contingencies from which empirical historians will have already abstracted in constructing their narratives, for example, when writing from particular national perspectives.
Murdoch's characters are fallen, her world post-lapsarian, full of contingency and realistic illogic.
Prediction is complicated by the fact that evolution is full of contingency, while some lineages become extinct.
The fact that we don't announce publicly our entire strategy for the world to see doesn't mean we don't have a strategy that anticipates the full range of contingencies — we do".
So, yes, our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats.
His spokesman, Geoff Morrell, declined to comment on specifics in the document, but issued a statement on Saturday saying, "The secretary believes the president and his national security team have spent an extraordinary amount of time and effort considering and preparing for the full range of contingencies with respect to Iran".
Introducing a novel gene into a dynamic ecosytem isn't just daunting and full of multiple contingencies; it's risky.
LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a recent night on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is full of strange contingencies.
The last few years have seen a series of journalistic scandals — if my grandfather hadn't already been long gone, learning that Jayson Blair had published fabrications in the Times would no doubt have finished him off — and forthright self-examinations by the media organizations made it clear that journalism, like everything else, is full of choice and contingency.
