41 Verbs to Use for the Word contingency

I may add that the Khilafat Committee is fully alive to the difficulty of the task and is taking all the necessary steps to meet the contingencies as they arise.

But I do not desire to contemplate such a contingency.

Nor will it, perhaps, be found that they ever appeared grossly ignorant of the publick interest, or failed to discover any obvious truth, or foresee any probable contingencies.

She raised all possible objections, mentioned all possible contingencies, but in the end allowed the younger members to carry the day, which they did, with a clear and shriven conscience, feeling that they had been very discreet and careful and deliberate.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the verb repents, which is here used to express a future contingency, is in the indicative mood.

One weighs all contingencies too minutely; one is too considerate, if that is possible; and if one makes up one's mind, perhaps, to find fault, the presence in the house of a dissatisfied person is an undue weight on the mind.

It showed that he, at all events, had not regarded such a contingency as being the least bit incredible.

On the other hand, if the authorities of New Brunswick should attempt to enforce the claim of exclusive jurisdiction set up by them by means of a military occupation on their part of the disputed territory, I shall feel myself bound to consider the contingency provided by the Constitution as having occurred, on the happening of which a State has the right to call for the aid of the Federal Government to repel invasion.

It is possible for two people to frequent the same house for quite a while without meeting when one of them lives on the avenue side and flits back and forth via the front steps, while the other comes and goes only by the subterranean route; but, sooner or later, though belonging to widely different worlds, these two are bound to come face to face, even in spite of the determination of one of the persons to avert such a contingency!

The present tense of this mood naturally implies contingency and futurity, while the imperfect here becomes an aorist, and serves to suppose a case as a mere supposition, a case contrary to fact.

An appropriation ought therefore to be granted large enough to cover such contingencies.

But fearing that Madame or the Signor might come to Savannah in search of tidings, and that some unlucky accident might bring them to speech of his bride, he concluded it was best to ward off such a contingency.

I had dreaded this contingency.

They assumed the right to stand neutral between the Government and rebellion, to contract a kind of morganatic marriage with Treason, by which they could enjoy the pleasant sin without the tedious responsibility, and to be traitors in everything but the vulgar contingency of hemp.

The eventual result of this, however, was that Bulgaria inevitably entered the sphere of Austrian and ultimately of German influence or rather calculation, a contingency probably not foreseen by its statesmen at the time, and whose full meaning, even if it had, would not have been grasped by them.

No need to be gravely concerned about that: to envisage the contingency was to be prepared against it.

One must be ready in a war like this To face the most remote contingencies.

The sight of it fitted a contingency that had flashed through his brain on the beach.

I lay listening to Anazeh's thunderous snores and naturally enough imagining every possible contingency and dozens that were totally impossible.

And to offset that remote contingency we shall permanently enslave the powerful John Merrick.

His career upon the bench, to which he was soon after elevated, was brilliant, because energetic, and successful, because he never permitted contingencies to thwart a predetermination, and because that coolness and grit which enabled him to whip a second sneering boy while he was yet a youth had become a settled trait of his character.

It was to prevent any such contingency that I suggested that you should bicycle to Kingham Manor.

For instance, I would devise an ingenious fraud and would plan it in detail, taking every precaution that I could think of against failure or detection, considering, and elaborately providing for, every imaginable contingency.

he will provoke a quarrel...." "I knowI know ..." he retorted impatiently, "'tis no use recapitulating the many evil contingencies that might occur....

Why should we imagine, that they anticipated every contingency, and left nothing for succeeding ages?

41 Verbs to Use for the Word  contingency