It would not be untoward for a court to interpret 'contingent' to mean 'contingent upon improvement".' Efforts to limit contingent-fee agreements have not been successful.
Last week Mr. Biden had reached out to Mr. McConnell, but only on Friday morning did he call back — just long enough to say that they had nothing to discuss until the fate of Mr. Boehner's bill, which would have made a debt limit increase contingent on huge spending cuts and passage of a balanced-budget amendment, was settled.
Other commentaries reflect upon the limits of contingent valuation for conveying the range of ways in which woods and trees are important, the possibility of a cultural repositioning of the economic role of forestry, and the need to take account of intangible environmental meanings and goods in contemporary forestry policy.
James was part of a contingent that limited the Bulls to 37 percent shooting (34 of 91), and Chicago suffered several lengthy scoring droughts.
Bridges to Independence, a study published by the National Academies in 2005, bemoaned the "very limited data on this contingent.
If access is limited, it should be contingent on clear and objective criteria; writing a request to the creator for permission should not be part of the process.
Key US allies Britain, Canada and Australia also committed forces, although these were initially limited to naval contingents and were largely viewed as token efforts in the US.
We therefore emphasize that the limits of launch and flapping flight are contingent upon morphology; extrapolating limits from qualitative assessments of launch performance is, in our assessment, unwarranted and unsupported, especially when such extrapolations are made from birds to distantly related groups (such as pterosaurs).
Under the original House bill, the second installment of the debt limit increase would have been contingent on Congress approving both the balanced budget amendment and the $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction measure.
As part of the settlement, Marsh & McLennan agreed to a ban on contingent commissions, to limit its insurance brokerage compensation to a single fee or commission at the time of placement, and to disclose all forms of compensation to Marsh's clients.
