Sentence examples for only contingent from inspiring English sources

The Constitution offers only contingent answers to these questions.

The debt guarantees, it pointed out, are only "contingent" liabilities: they will land in officials' laps only if bad things happen, and bad things do not always happen.Based on past experience, the NAO believes local governments will have to bear only a fraction of these liabilities: 19% of the explicitly guaranteed debt and less than 15% of the implicit obligations.

Modes, in contrast, are only contingent accidents of substance.

We may conclude that libertarianism gives only contingent and very weak support for the enactment of a social minimum.

Since epiphenomenalists deny the identity of qualia and physical properties, such laws are not only contingent, but independent of physical laws.

However, one of the properties of TFTCs is that their property will not be affected by the device routing, and the output signal of TFTCs is only contingent with temperature differences between the hot ends and the cold ends.

Some concrete individuals — those traditionally (mis- categorized as contingent beings — are only contingently concrete.

This concept can provide a sample size only contingently (i.e., contingent on data collection and analysis, as per Glaser and Strauss).

The government withdrew its forces from the city center last year, leaving only a contingent at the airport and allowing the P.Y.D. to take over.

IAC maintains that the only other "contingent matter" that would prompt Liberty's veto rights would be a transaction resulting in the debt ratio of IAC exceeding a certain threshold.

If banks cannot be permitted to fail, then their liabilities (as Martin Wolf of the Financial Times was musing last week) were perhaps always and only ever contingent liabilities of the public.