Sentence examples for sort of contingency from inspiring English sources

"Every town has some sort of contingency, but let's say all of DuPage lost theirs," he said.

It was a testament to the sort of contingency planning that finger-wagging regulators urge on companies, but that only some do.

To planners in China, such activity would be seen as no different from the sort of contingency planning and cyberoperations the United States undertakes toward Chinese military and infrastructure targets.

That said, in case Mr. Chávez slips his mortal coil before his Cuban ally does, the über-strategist Fidel Castro has no doubt cobbled together some sort of contingency plan — as he was forced to do after the Soviets pulled out.

It was the jihadists' pre-emptive assault on the south that forced the French to abandon the indirect approach.Still, Mali is the sort of contingency that the EU's "battlegroups" (formations of about 1,500 soldiers deployable at short notice) could be taking on.

Just as important as the tactical lessons in specific skills (like sniper surveillance, sentry removal, intelligence gathering), both authors emphasize, are practice, teamwork and stress and endurance training, which help equip members of the Seals with the emotional ability to manage fear and the muscle memory and instinct to grapple with any sort of contingency and physical threat.

"You can be confident that around a capability as important to the UK's defence as our strategic nuclear deterrent we will have all sorts of contingency plans for maintaining the deterrent in place in all sorts of circumstances - that is sound, good operational planning".

Our concepts, after all, have been developed to deal with the sorts of contingencies that normally arise, and it may sometimes be possible to invent scenarios (or even to discover them empirically) that are not provided for in our ordinary usage of a concept.

I sort of agree.

If Mr. Obama's lead is five or six points in the typical swing state right now, then Mitt Romney will probably need some sort of external contingency to give him much of a chance at winning.

He added: "What I intend to do is see a build-up again of the reserves so that their utility is greater and also so that over time we create the sort of civil contingency in the UK that sadly we've been lacking".