It could be a case where the academy's small, serious East Coast contingent scored a win over its Hollywood counterparts.
Moving past these humiliations and rejoining polite society are contingent on serious gym time.
The current target is a reduction of 20 percent; E.U. leaders would like any 30 percent target to be contingent on serious climate action by other nations around the world.
Mr. DiCaprio's risk taking is cheered by the Hollywood contingent that loves serious films, raising him to the level of deity for his willingness to make the kind of drama that is an endangered species at major studios these days.
Yet compared with Milosz, Auden tends towards don-speak, doesn't appear to suffer as much from the complicating drag of the contingent: you get serious speculation but it tends to lack the interesting impairment of specific personal gravity.
In this study, we examined the sensitivity of marijuana use by individuals with serious mental illness to voucher-based contingent reinforcement, which represents the first study to date investigating the efficacy of voucher incentives with this population.
Whist, the hotel's candlelit restaurant, felt serious, and neckties outnumbered jeans, even among the contingent dining alfresco in the modish cabanas by the pool.
Mr. Sharpton, in his autobiography "Go and Tell Pharoah" (Doubleday), said the stabbing made him realize that "if my life was so fragile, so contingent, then I had to be more serious about what I was doing and saying".
So the voter ID laws make exercise of important rights contingent upon showing a state ID without any serious rationale and, furthermore, impose unnecessary burden on a significant number of voters.
Of course, it is contingent on the Palestinian security forces showing they are dead serious about taking action against terrorists".
