Popovkin suggested that software was to blame and said that this sort of contingency had been prepared for.
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.
It was a testament to the sort of contingency planning that finger-wagging regulators urge on companies, but that only some do.
She said that?" "Sort of".
But that is false, for basic moral principles do not exhibit this sort of contingency.
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.
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 want to disabuse everybody of the notion that there's some kind of quiet increase going on, specifically aimed at some sort of contingency planning for any one country in that part of the world," he told reporters at the Pentagon.
On the same afternoon that a reporter or two questioned the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, about what sort of contingency plans for the selection of a new vice president were or were not in place, Mr. Cheney was already talking about four more years.
"Every town has some sort of contingency, but let's say all of DuPage lost theirs," he said.
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.
