contingent
നാദിർ
definition
noun
a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference
a group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group.
adjective
the contingent nature of the job
subject to chance.
resolution of the conflict was contingent on the signing of a ceasefire agreement
occurring or existing only if (certain other circumstances) are the case; dependent on.
example
That the emotions have a history implies that subjects are historically 'contingent' and open to the possibility that they are hence culturally determined.
We use them in arguing from 'contingent' premises about which we are often less than completely certain.
While the pace 'contingent' is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned.
They also recommended the issuance of a policy letter instructing award-fee officials to commit funds as 'contingent' liabilities when evaluation periods begin.
There is also a strong 'contingent' of delegates from South Africa and Unesco.
Was there any evidence of any actual, as opposed to 'contingent' liability?
That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a 'contingent' fact that could conceivably have been otherwise.
How might a 'contingent' fact be known on the basis of nothing empirical?
They paid about $5 million for the assets, but there was a 'contingent' liability on the books for redundancy of $35 million.
Unfortunately, little comment on the subject in political debate deals with these 'contingent' matters.
Most of our doors are double locked as though to emphasize the 'contingent' nature of dwelling.
Now the works of men are 'contingent' , as being subject to free choice.
Heavy 'contingent' of police and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot.
From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is 'contingent' upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads.
That will remove a huge 'contingent' liability on the banking system.
So the recognition of 'contingent' liabilities in a company's bank account is to create a fund; is that the proposition?
The subject is a historically 'contingent' effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human.
In any case, it fully confirms it as concerns one essential point, what I have called the 'contingent' nature of society and the attendant pathos.
So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and 'contingent' liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged.
Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the 'contingent' nature of that right emerges.
The extent of the tax difficulties will be established and the sellers will have to provide warranties to the purchasers to cover the 'contingent' liabilities.
Where are the historical and 'contingent' facts?
Culturally, the Polish 'contingent' has held tightly to its folk and national roots, making Polonia more than simply a name.
Another important area of concern to fiduciary investors is information transparency, in particular 'contingent' liabilities.
Our Army's battlefield success is 'contingent' on the right information reaching the right soldier at the right time.
With 18 entries, swimmers form the largest 'contingent' in the delegation.
No deduction is given for 'contingent' liabilities until they crystallise.
Now, the boy, little older than Naoise, seemed adventurous and a little rouge, his eyes darting over all in the male 'contingent' of the party, but settling most of all on Naoise.
As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the 'contingent' nature of empirical knowledge.
Such exploration calls for a theory of the subject as a 'contingent' psychocultural construct implicated in the visual sign.
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