Sentence examples for of their contingent from inspiring English sources

"We have made it absolutely clear all along that the reason why British forces are in Sierra Leone was in the first place to allow the evacuation of British nationals, and secondly to allow the reinforcement by the United Nations of their contingent in the country," he said.

Contractors are helpful precisely because of their contingent nature.

By contrast, some events are extrinsically good (bad) for a subject; they are good (bad) because of their contingent effects.

Some events are intrinsically good (or bad) for a subject; such events are good (bad) for their own sakes, rather than in virtue of their contingent effects.

In response to the modal version of our second problem, a substance theorist should claim that the constituents of singular propositions are independent of their contingent properties but involve their necessary properties.

It suggests that its survey instrument be widely used by colleges to assess the status of their contingent teachers.

From the nineteen-eighties onward, the aid agencies made many of their loans contingent upon "structural adjustment programs" that involved sharp cutbacks in government spending.

No champion side have lifted the trophy having won all their pool games but Saracens are featuring in their fifth semi-final in seven years and have the vast majority of their England contingent fit and available.

It will be the second January in succession that Chelsea generate a substantial fee for one of their Brazilian contingent, having sold Ramires to Jiangsu Suning in last season's mid-winter window.

Xherdan Shaqiri's home debut seemed to herald another stage in Stoke's progress but, with barely half an hour remaining, he was the sole survivor of their creative contingent.

But events on the pitch – which included a Billy Sharp penalty miss for the visitors – were overshadowed for Leeds by the absence of much of their foreign contingent in the two days leading up to the match.