Sentence examples for in which contingent from inspiring English sources

There is wisdom in the ancient maxim: "De minimis non curat lex". (The law does not concern itself with trifles). In that vein, we recognize that, in the course of litigation in which contingent fee counsel is involved, certain decisions of the "de minimis" or ministerial variety will from time to time have to be made.

In this method a hypothetical market is assumed in which contingent questionnaires are distributed among respondents and completed in their presence or delivered by mail.

The concept of the proto-differentiability of a multifunction, in which the contingent cone coincides with the adjacent cone at a point to its graph, was presented by Rockafellar in [12].

But if the missing premise is a contingent truth (it has to be true with respect to the time indicated by the verbs of the consequence, otherwise the original material consequence does not hold), then the original material consequence holds only in some situations, namely the situations in which the contingent sentence happens to be true, and is thus an as-of-now consequence.

Stated boldly and bluntly, tautologies, contradictions and mathematical propositions (i.e., mathematical equations) are neither true nor false we say that they are true or false, but in doing so we use the words 'true' and 'false' in very different senses from the sense in which a contingent proposition is true or false.

I'll take all the help I can get but try to still have my ideas in there". Griffin has written about former Clippers owner Donald Sterling's annual White Party and the wild day in which a contingent of Clippers players and executives trekked to Houston to get DeAndre Jordan to stay with the only NBA team he has known.

For otherwise, either some contingent proposition would follow from a necessary proposition (which is impossible), or there would be an infinite regress in contingent propositions (in which case no contingent proposition would ever be known).

State law prohibits raffles of any kind in which participation is contingent on the sale of tickets for a chance to win.

This is one sense in which citizenship is contingent: rather than being a fundamental status, it is uncertain and subject to unforeseen and perhaps even accidental events.

Imagine a series in which suspense were contingent on whether the Patent and Trademark Office was going to approve the invention of a new kind of parking meter for deployment in municipalities of southern Ohio.

This is taken as an indication of the exclusive and nationalistic nature of Judaism, without reference to the situation in which a harassed contingent of returning exiles sought to maintain itself in a territory surrounded by politically unfriendly if not hostile neighbours.