The phrase "issue of contingent" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in discussions about potential problems or uncertainties. Example: The issue of contingent liability is a major concern for businesses operating in the volatile market.
The British bank Barclays has issued a number of contingent capital instruments, known as CoCos, which are intended to ensure that the firm's core Tier 1 ratio stays above a certain level.
Or perhaps the Canadian taxpayer would be willing to subscribe to a new issue of convertible contingent debt issued by the likes of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase – allowing them to assume a "first loss" position whenever the management of such entities makes very big mistakes (or worse).
However, the issue of the contingent true score cannot be reduced to a problem of writing better items or clearer instructions.
For instrumentalists, whether pure or side-constrained, it is a contingent, empirical issue whether the criminal law is an appropriate institution: it is appropriate if and because it does, as a matter of contingent fact, make an efficient contribution to whatever ends we posited for the state.
It is based upon a number of Contingent Valuation studies.
In the present context the issue of future contingents will be approached from the viewpoint of philosophical logic with due consideration to philosophical-theological origins.
Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, president of this Central Asian republic, is a man possessed of reformist zeal - leading to such exciting innovations as renaming months of the year after members of his family, making the issue of driving licenses contingent on passing a test on his spiritual writings, and ordering the construction of an ice palace in the desert.
The investment banking arm of Barclays, the retail banking behemoth based in London, is leaning toward issuing a healthy slug of contingent capital securities, or CoCos, to employees around the world as part of their 2010 deferred compensation.
G.M. has issued more than $8 billion of contingent convertible bonds, making it the largest issuer of the relatively new kind of bond, known in specialized financial circles as co-co's.
The biggest hurdle is actually the fact that regulators in Britain and global bank capital standard-setters in Basel, Switzerland, still haven't issued clear guidelines on the treatment of contingent capital.
