ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONTINGENT
From Latin contingere to touch, fall to one's lot, befall.
10 QUOTES WITH «CONTINGENT»
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contingent.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTINGENT»
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contingent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
contingent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Actuarial Mathematics for Life
Contingent Risks
This groundbreaking text has been augmented with new material and fully updated to prepare students for the new-style MLC exam.
David C. M. Dickson, Mary Hardy, Mary R. Hardy, 2013
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Contingent Valuation: A Comprehensive Bibliography and History
This major reference work the first of its kind provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation.
3
The
Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
A professor of art history explores the last four decades of art history, raising important questions about authorship and materials, beginning in the era of "anything is art" and continuing through post-modern expressions of pastiche art ...
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Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition
This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations.
Kathleen Barker, Kathleen Christensen, 1998
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Handbook on
Contingent Valuation
The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change.
Anna Alberini, James R. Kahn, 2009
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Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life ...
This must-have manual provides detailed solutions to all of the 200+ exercises in Dickson, Hardy and Waters' Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, Second Edition.
David C. M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy, Howard R. Waters, 2013
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Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western ...
Caroline H. Bledsoe, 2002
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Finite,
Contingent, and Free: A New Ethics of Acceptance
Finite, Contingent, and Free is a Roman Catholic perspective that views acceptance as the proper response to the conditions of human existence, and the foundation for ethics.
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Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations
Finally, Contingent States reveals how each of the “problems” provoked theoretical innovations that depart from standard conceptions of sovereignty, democracy, and the nation-state.William A. Callahan is senior lecturer of international ...
William A. Callahan, 2004
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Contingent Future Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who ...
In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for philosophical and theological ethicists.
N. Fotion, J.C. Heller, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTINGENT»
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contingent is used in the context of the following news items.
Huge contingent of Southern United players fire at hockey's Junior …
Southern United had a strong contingent: Will Carruthers, Dominic Eddy, Nicholas Fitzgerald, Sam Letts, Craig Marais, Aiden Mosford, Lachlan ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
VIDEO: Bath Rugby's England contingent join fans in launching …
VIDEO: Bath Rugby's England contingent join fans in launching Rugby World Cup kit. By ChronSport | Posted: July 07, 2015. Andrew Matthews/PA Wire ... «Bath Chronicle, Jul 15»
OU Sports: Trevor Knight among the Sooners' contingent at Big 12 …
Knight was a surprise inclusion among OU's contingent scheduled for the annual event, which will be held July 20-21 in Dallas. Only two other ... «Tulsa World, Jul 15»
Entrepreneur Sunil Singh hosts Indian contingent who won medals …
ACCOKEEK, MD: Members of the Indian contingent who won more than 150 medals at the 2015 World Police & Fire Games in Fairfax County, ... «The American Bazaar, Jul 15»
5 Great Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Contingent Recruiters
Contingent recruiters work for free on average 75-92% of the time. They work on assignments and someone else gets paid because their ... «Pulse, Jul 15»
Large area contingent headed to New England track meet
Local athletes head to Maine Saturday for the 79th New England track and field championships at Thornton Academy in Saco. Here are the ... «Waterbury Republican American, Jul 15»
ACT contingent crucial in Australia's win over Japan at world softball …
Canberra's Adam Folkard and Nick Norton played pivotal roles to guide Australia into the semi-finals of the world softball championships on ... «The Canberra Times, Jul 15»
Toronto Deadhead contingent travels en masse to band's farewell jam
When the Grateful Dead announced they would play three farewell shows this weekend in Chicago, Larry Feldman knew what he had to do: ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
Dave Lupton leads 15-strong Yorkshire Union contingent seeking …
EAGLESCLIFFE'S Dave Lupton shot a level-par 72 to lie sixth after day one of the English Men's Mid Amateur Championship at ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
East Lothian contingent make bid for Scottish Open spots
Elliot Saltman, of Archerfield, leads the Challenge Tour contingent taking part, with a number of players passing up an event in Germany to take ... «East Lothian Courier, Jul 15»
