"This will be the first major effort to deal with the underlying causes — that is, lack of adequate trust between our two countries," Mr. Singh told reporters, noting that any progress was contingent on Pakistan's stopping attacks against India by terrorist groups within its borders.
To put it bluntly, we do not want to make progress on Iraq contingent on solving the Iranian nuclear problem.
Mr Corbyn has committed himself to a "confirmatory vote" but made progress to it contingent on an improbable sequence of events.
The picture of early life provided by the Qingjiang, Burgess, and other Cambrian fossil beds makes it clear that evolution is not a coherent march up a ladder of progress, but a contingent, often unpredictable process.
"It is contingent on progress of talks between North Korea and the United States, but the possibility is low," he said.
Making the restoration of aid cuts contingent on progress in a genuine process of national reconciliation, and/or providing a waiver for aid that is deemed to promote such a process, is critical.
Ospreys won their European Champions Cup opener with a little to spare, thereby halting the spectacular progress of the English contingent over the previous 40-odd hours, with a performance best described as... unspectacular.
At an international conference in Tokyo this month about funding for Afghanistan in the years to come, many countries said their continued financial support was contingent on progress on corruption.
On one hand, Mr. Lee has to live up to his election promise to get tough on the North by making South Korean economic help to the North contingent on progress in dismantling its nuclear weapons programs.
Despite these gloomy trends, American commanders have continued to hint at the possibility of at least an initial reduction of the 140,000 American troops stationed here by next summer, contingent on progress in creating effective Iraqi units.
