Sentence examples for specific contingent from inspiring English sources

It is surely a sad irony that a system whose motivation is to capture our modal intuitions — most notably, intuitions about contingency — cannot so much as permit us to talk about specific contingent individuals and say of those individuals that they are contingent.

Because so much of the fashion blogosphere is populated by slim, white, wealthy women, and so much of the mainstream press given to the fashion blogosphere centers on that specific contingent.

In the absence of a specific contingent valuation study for Europe aiming to elicit the average WTP measure to improve visibility, some adjustment in the USA numbers may be done to account for this lower concern about visibility effects.

The latter spread-of-effect was no greater than in the normal animals, suggesting that the resultant change in behavior following the lesion was not caused by functional compensation but instead by the unmasking of an existing learning system, the influence of which is usually dwarfed by a mechanism to make specific contingent choice-reward associations.

Evan Cinq-Mars, an expert on the UN and policy adviser at the US-based Conflictor Civiciansaid ConflictheCivic), said the report was particularly significant in naming the specific contingents who were found to have underperformed.

So modern geography is interested in a more "discursive" approach, piling on detail and colour, in "close explication of locally specific and contingent factors", in building models from the bottom up, not from the top down.Mr Krugman's response is robust.

The horror that Voltaire wanted crushed, cruelty in the name of God and civilization, was a specific and contingent thing.

But it happened for highly specific and contingent causes, and the means of remedying them have not yet passed.

Instead of focusing on the scientific inadequacy of theistic arguments, Kitcher critically examines the spiritual experiences underlying religious belief, particularly noting that they depend on specific and contingent social and cultural conditions.

Such statistical interventions are typically situation specific and contingent upon the type and amount of data available.

The population attributable risk percentage is a population specific calculation contingent on the prevalence of the exposure and its association with risk of disease.