Sentence examples for less contingent from inspiring English sources

Their take is less contingent on national considerations.

Unlike most aspects of life in North Korea, one's ability to shoot up through the company ranks is less contingent on background: even those with poor songbun, a caste system delineated by family background and political loyalty, can be a boss.

Using a closed-loop design, we experimentally provided more versus less contingent vocal feedback to twin infant marmoset monkeys over their first 2 months of life, the interval during which their contact calls transform from noisy, immature calls to tonal adult-like "phee" calls [7, 8].

Fewer competing demands appeared to mean that return was less contingent on the activity remaining easy.

Functionally redundant characteristics—alternative phenotypes that achieve the same functional outcome also appeared less contingent.

One reason for the importance of the intellectual attributes may be that their meaning and importance are less subjective and less contingent on the particular situation presenting in healthcare.

But there was also a less obvious contingent: an international assortment of business interests that used their influence to push for a deal.

Tears are as universal (but less culturally contingent) as laughter, and tragedy is more complex than joy — an insight Tolstoy and many others have offered.

The less affluent lesbian contingent began making tentative forays into the area in the early Eighties, Smith believes, with each generation arriving younger and staying longer than the one before.

The party's incoming congressional contingent looks less left-wing than the current lot.

Because it is less attached to the contingent events of a particular man's life, John's conception of the preexistent Logos becoming incarnate (made flesh) in Jesus made intelligible to the Hellenistic world the universal significance of Jesus.