Do we say contingency or contingent

contingency 339 occurrences

Of the existence of this contingency there could be little doubt.

You glory in some surprising stroke of skill or fortune, not because a coldor even an interestedby-stander witnesses it, but because your partner sympathises in the contingency.

And at the same time He speaks of those who are living and believe on Him, and says that they shall never diethus contemplating the entire elimination of the contingency of death (John xi. 25).

The deeming or supposition, is of a reality, not a contingency.

But there seemed no probability of such a contingency.

Napoleon, who knew the unsoundness of his own army, dreaded this contingency himself; though the English Court supposedand continued to suppose, strangely enoughthat to provoke a war with Prussia was the ultimate end of his policy.

"If our Government should take the Telegraph, or companies should be formed for that purpose, so that a sum is realized from it when I get home, this will, of course, change the face of things; but I dare not expect it and ought not to build any plans on such a contingency.

Throughout our whole Union, however, and wherever free government prevails those who abstain from the exercise of the right of suffrage authorize those who do vote to act for them in that contingency; and the absentees are as much bound under the law and Constitution, where there is no fraud or violence, by the act of the majority of those who do vote as if all had participated in the election.

In view of this contingency, the Secretary of the Navy, under my direction, has fitted out and dispatched a naval force to rendezvous near Buenos Ayres, which, it is believed, will prove sufficient for the occasion.

He had put down a man far heavier than he; and he felt that possibly, perchance, maybe, there was a probability of a contingency in which he might be able to have a chance of downing him once moreperhaps.

We must go prepared to meet any contingency that may arise.

Or that if the ceded parts of those states had been the only parts in which slaves were held under their laws, Congress might have abolished in such a contingency also.

In the arrangements to which the possibility of a similar contingency will naturally draw your attention it ought not to be forgotten that the militia laws have exhibited such striking defects as could not have been supplied but by the zeal of our citizens, Besides the extraordinary expense and waste, which are not the least of the defects, every appeal to those laws is attended with a doubt on its success.

Their support being dependent upon their congregation, it will occasionally happen that a minister gets starved out, and some time may elapse before a successor is appointed; the inconvenience of which contingency occurring is obvious.

There were no hummocks, however, in the neighbourhood to enable them to approach unseen; but the Esquimau was prepared for such a contingency.

When he had said that nothing should awe him from the career of his humor, he had never contemplated the appalling contingency of the interposition of paternal authority.

We'll play for her!' CHAPTER XXIV CUTTING FOR THE QUEEN It was a suggestion so purely in the spirit of a day when men betted on every contingency, public or private, decorous or the reverse, from the fecundity of a sister to the longevity of a sire, that it sounded less indecent in the cars of Lord Almeric's companions than it does in ours.

" Her husband relates the following: "In November, 1839, in making provision for the then to her not improbable contingency of sudden death, Angelina prepared a communication to her husband, filled with details concerning themselves alone.

The safety of the city stood higher in his estimation than a reputation for being the only successful commander, and expecting that if they followed their own bent they would probably meet with failure, but if they heeded his counsel they would meet with a favorable outcome, he preferred to look to the second contingency for praise.

Such a contingency seemed to have been overlooked in the framing of the Constitution.

Bismarck had considered this contingency, and guarded himself against it.

In view of such a contingency it was deemed prudent to retain in the Treasury an amount unusually large for ordinary purposes.

The contingency upon which the exercise of this authority depended has not occurred.

On the happening of such contingency, and on receiving notice thereof, the general in command was instructed by the Secretary of War to suspend further active military operations until further orders.

He would guard against contingency and secure his dram.

contingent 381 occurrences

Contingent Expenses in the Collection of the Party at Surat : 100/0/0.

EQUIPMENT : 2521/7/8. CONTINGENT EXPENSES : 520/0/0.

If it were, then the contingent profit was worth the slight additional risk.

They soon came into contact with the English contingent under Francis Vere, who was desperately wounded in the shock.

However, as every soul in Niggertown, a number of colored friends in Jonesboro, and a contingent from up-river villages meant to attend, it became necessary to hold the service in the church.

At Cairo I engaged a guide whom I paid three dollars for accompanying me as many hours, and bargained with him that he must furnish the mules, (or donkeys I should have said), and pay all the contingent expenses.

What I spoake was a contingent supposition What others might doe, but not argument I meant to love you.

477. depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154.

Adj. qualifying &c v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged; conditional; exceptional &c (unconformable) 83. hypothetical &c (supposed) 514; contingent &c (uncertain) 475.

Contingent Subservience 664.

Henceforward it was as an allied contingent of other navies that that of Venice was regarded as important.

But these burdensome requirements were in various ways evaded or transgressed; and the crowding of the burgesses of Latin townships to Rome, and the complaints of their magistrates as to the increasing depopulation of the cities and the impossibility under such circumstances of furnishing the fixed contingent, led the Roman government to institute police-ejections from the capital on a large scale (567, 577).

At the words "Let's go," the paraders from both ends and the middle of the Centralia contingent broke ranks and started on the run for the union headquarters.

It had evidently been planned to stampede the entire contingent into the attack by having the secret committeemen take the lead from both ends and the middle.

The barracks at Uncapampa could have furnished a contingent to make an attack on that side very dangerous.

[Sidenote: A.D. 162 (a.u. 915)] Lucius, accordingly, on coming to Antioch collected a great many soldiers, and with the best commanders under his supervision took up a position in the city, spending his time in ordering all arrangements and in gathering the contingent for the war.

In return for this contingent he relieved them of the requirement of an annual levy.

Anullinus after making all this out placed in advance the heavier part of his force and behind it his entire light-armed contingent, to the end that the latter, though discharging their weapons from a distance might still retard the progress of the enemy, while the solidity of the advance guard rendered the upward passage safe for them.

"The first contingent of the American troops brought food for six months, and hence the fears of the peasants in France lest they should be eaten up are groundless.

It might be a somber and stupid proceeding but for the presence of many natives in their dazzling jewels, picturesque turbans and golden brocades, and the large contingent of army officers, with their breasts covered with medals and decorations.

The auxiliary cruiser fleet of the allies, to which England can send a large contingent, would also be superior to us.

When Beauty is not made essential, but enters as a mere contingent, its admission or rejection is a matter of indifference.

For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

" The Subjunctive mood is that form of the verb, which represents the being, action, or passion, as conditional, doubtful, and contingent: as, "If thou go, see that thou offend not.""See

The inauguration ceremonies were marred by an attack of hoodlums on the suffrage contingent of the parade.

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