Having an inventory would prepare me, he said, for unforeseen contingencies.
Prototype testing is usually completed in one year but can take much longer because of unforeseen contingencies.
Difficulties in practice have sprung from uncertainty about, or changes in, the underlying quantitative relationships and the existence of uncertain time lags in their operation, which make it hard to deal effectively with unforeseen contingencies.
The choice of right priorities and technology is a must; we cannot ignore the fact that resources are limited and the efforts of individual countries to achieve self-sufficiency in food must be supported by international action to assist in meeting unforeseen contingencies.
The unscheduled exchanges may be needed during unforeseen contingencies [40].
It was conjectured (cf. Geanakoplos 1989) that lack of negative introspection (i.e. systems without K5) would allow to incorporate unforeseen contingencies in the epistemic model, by representing the agents' unawareness of certain events (i.e. the case in which the agent does not know that an event occurs and also does not know that she does not know that).
This paper references the approach of Resilience Engineering which aims to extend successes in a changing environment, and focuses on the actions that prevented "further catastrophe" through an analysis of the Fukushima accident and derives new lessons to improve the capability to handle "unforeseen contingencies".
Sometimes, however, presidents want to defer spending because, however, unobjectionable a program, deferring spending is necessary to provide for unforeseen contingencies.
"I am concerned -- not about this operation, but in general -- that unforeseen contingencies will be impacted in the future if sequestration continues," said Dempsey, adding, "My assumption is if something is in our national interest and we act upon it, we can find the money to pay for it".
