Sentence examples for represent contingent from inspiring English sources

This is money owed by other entities that local governments would probably feel compelled to repay, if push came to shove, even though they have not explicitly promised to do so.The 2.7 trillion and 4.3 trillion represent "contingent" liabilities.

State-owned enterprises represent contingent liabilities if they are likely to lose money.

This approach treats diseases as putative natural kinds and could be highly revisionist, while also leaving open the possibility that some diagnoses represent contingent historical outcomes that have left us with an incoherent category.

A spreadsheet implementation of a previously proposed predictive Bayesian model, extended to represent contingent costs, is described and used to evaluate whether a firm should undertake an accelerated phase-out of its PCB containing transformers.

These variables change with time and represent the contingent properties of the system.

The International Monetary Fund represents a contingent liability to taxpayers in the United States — much as the Federal National Mortgage Association (known as Fannie Mae) and Freddie Mac (formally the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) have in the past — and as too-big-to-fail megabanks do now.

It is a French-German co-production, shot in English, and among the international cast, Assumpta Serna and Rafael represent the Spanish contingent.

Until then, most of the Pan Am 103 family members, represented by contingent-fee aviation tort lawyers, had channeled their fury, instead, into a class action suit charging the the airline with failing to use adequate luggage screening procedures.

Indo-Pacific and circumtropical contingents represent each 11%% of the total NSHMs, extinctions in the Mediterranean being probably linked to lack of establishment of species that recently reached the basin.

The experimental and underground rock musicians represent the most creative contingent of Chinese music, and the scene has had its first bona fide international hit: FM3's Buddha Machine, a device slightly bigger than an iPod that plays nine electronic drones, has sold nearly 50,000 units around the world and already spawned remix albums.

Arbitration, as an alternative to litigation, thus enables attorneys to represent investors using the contingent fee in cases where they would not do so if the cases were in court.