Contingency
a contingency (noun) - some event that may happen in the future, a possibilitycontingent (adjective)
a contingency plan
worst case contingency plans
this worst-case contingency plan is being put to the test under conditions far worse than ever envisioned
a contingency included in the plans
review of contingency plans
contingency arrangements
an unexpected contingency
handle any contingency
be able to handle any contingency
plans that would enable them to handle any contingency
ready to deal with any contingency
drafted another speech just for that contingency
its contingency plans were based on unrealistic projections
these women were trained for whatever contingency they encountered
that's a contingency for which I have been preparing
We've always got to be ready for the contingency nobody has planned for and the crisis nobody knew was coming until it arrived.
examine all possible contingencies
it's a contingency we've been planning for for 15 years
I hope you are doing your contingency planning now
our latest actions are based on contingency plans that have been around for a long time
These contingency plans do provide for various stages of mobilization
I think they realize they have not quite prepared the American people for unhappy contingency adequately
Management says they had to be ready for any contingency
His contingency plans remain a secret
the contingency plans were leaked to the press
telling department heads to dust off their contingency plans
the possibility of the contingency of violence
closely followed a contingency plan drawn up by the CEO
contingency planning that began at the start of the crisis
Too few of us plan for this contingency
the contract has no contingency for inspections and no warranties
the buy-sell agreement may also contain contingency statements that still give the buyer a way out.
contingency plans must address this fact fair and square
a contingency fund
appear to have no contingency plans for dealing with a recession beyond their existing plans
leafed through the various contingency plans proposals to promote economic growth
monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans, and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive.
computerized contingency plans
the high degree of contingency which always accompanies any explanation of soil erosion at a particular place.
most other animals have contingency plans to extricate them from such behavioural culs-de-sac
contingency reserve for the year
as a precaution it drew up contingency plans
criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind
The contingency originally had provision for...
It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency
he must start planning for contingencies
where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale, subject to the same contingencies, passions, frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature
adequate contingency plans must be in place to cope with such a situation
he had contingency plans, too, for whatever news he had
a contingency plan to cover the loss
a contingency approach to leadership
at all stages of your flight you will have planned for such contingency
an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order
they will take great care to consider what contingency plans are needed to avoid being caught napping again by a late rush of applicants
Example sentences:
* As a precaution it drew up contingency plans in May 1946 in case the loan was rejected by the US Congress, plans which included a list of significant import cuts.
* They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind.
* The remarkable persistence of the wasp's performance serves also to remind us that most other animals have contingency plans to extricate them from such behavioural culs-de-sac .
* We leafed through the various contingency plans in the Home Secretary's committee but none seemed satisfactory.
* One of the major problems of building a theory of soil erosion is the high degree of contingency which always accompanies any explanation of soil erosion at a particular place.
* A R1,000 million increase in the contingency reserve for the year was announced by de Klerk in June, bringing total projected spending to R73,900 million.
* It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point.
* Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases, it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid.
* The contingency originally had provision for some four thousand pounds for waste disposal.
* A system failure has a knock-on effect throughout the hotel and adequate contingency plans must be in place to cope with such a situation.
* Was there a contingency plan to cover the loss of McGrath, Moran and Staunton?
* First, however, we must come back to the question of how to read a contingency table when one variable can be considered a cause of the other.
* There has been some controversy in recent years about how best to analyse contingency data.
* In contingency tables, to control for a variable we look within its categories.
* But planning was what he liked, and he had contingency plans, too, for whatever news he had in the end of Katelina, good or bad.
* But the monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans, and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive.
* A contingency approach to leadership is one which argues that the ability of a manager to be a leader, and to influence his subordinate work group, depends on the particular situation, and will vary from case to case.
* Thus at all stages of your flight you will have planned for such contingency and noted the airfield(s) to use.
* The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level, or not just working-class suffrage but, for the first time, mass political parties, and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order.
* For Zola, modernist content, though laced with facticity and contingency, was of the utmost significance.
* I hope that local education authorities will have learnt some valuable lessons from this year's experience and that they will take great care to consider what contingency plans are needed to avoid being caught napping again by a late rush of applicants.
* He must start planning for contingencies, which means dropping stalwarts as well as those over whom questions still loom.
* Belief in the impassibility of God, it is worth noting, was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day, where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale, subject to the same contingencies, passions, frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature.
* Firstly it is clear that whatever contingencies entered into the writing of the Treatise , Keynes himself intended it as a major contribution to economic theory, free-standing and internally valid in all circumstances.
* Inevitably it has had to lard its work with contingencies and question marks.
