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How to use the word contingency in a Sentence? Page #3

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In a way very similar how a plaintiff’s lawyer on contingency would do it.

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We would get in touch with the plaintiffs who otherwise would have accepted a pittance for a settlement, and they were obviously quite happy to have this sort of support, in a way very similar how a plaintiff’s lawyer on contingency would do it.

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We talk to them about what their exposures are, how they're evolving, how they're managing them, what experience they are having, and what their contingency plan is for the plausible, if unlikely, case that things would deteriorate further.

Jeremy Rudin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are going through all our banks to make sure their contingency plans are the best that one can tell, are appropriate, we have stress-tested those institutions over the course of the last few years, against not this shock per se, but for elements of a related shock.

Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure on Daesh and defend the region in any future contingency.

Air Force

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Holding more inventory, or adding another production line as a business contingency measure may improve a company's robustness in the face of disaster, but it won't necessarily improve its global competitiveness, companies which take such steps at the cost of competitiveness would probably go bust even before the next disaster occurs.

Tokyo University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Holding more inventory, or adding another production line as a business contingency measure may improve a company's robustness in the face of disaster, but it won't necessarily improve its global competitiveness, companies which take such steps at the cost of competitiveness would probably go bust even before the next disaster occurs.

Tokyo University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If that doesn't lead to lower numbers, we'll have to find other measures and we'll have to do more contingency planning.

Klaas Dijkhoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The 6th of March, the 7th of March is when you can expect the spring influx to rise. We have until that time to find solutions ... if that doesn't lead to lower numbers, we'll have to find other measures and we'll have to do more contingency planning.

Klaas Dijkhoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The 6th of March, the 7th of March is when you can expect the spring influx to rise ... we have until that time to find solutions that mostly involve the Greek-Turkish influx, the border there, if that doesn't lead to lower numbers, we'll have to find other measures and we'll have to do more contingency planning ... That's a very crucial date to see to what extent we succeed in lowering the influx towards Europe as a whole, or we have to take other measures.

Klaas Dijkhoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everyone's coming up with contingency plans, the elevators and cooperatives, they have all these orders they're obligated to fulfill. ... They're worried about filling these orders.

Mike Steenhoek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Women always ask for a better sense of their delivery date in order to help them prepare for work leave, or to make contingency plans for sibling-care during labor, these are plans which help reduce a woman's anxiety about the onset of labor.

Vincenzo Berghella

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't like the use of the Overseas Contingency Operations budget to get around the budget caps, ... We're lying to people about how we spend their money.

Mick Mulvaney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is not enough, even if people try to apply contingency measures such as a water tank.

Pawel Krzysiek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Always have a contingency budget, if you don’t use it, that’s great. But chances are you’re going to need it.

Heidi Andermack

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are therefore implementing all the necessary measures, including securing contingency product supplies of petrol and diesel to address potential shortfalls.

Suzanne Pullinger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The resulting force would be incapable of simultaneously meeting current deployment requirements and responding to overseas contingency requirements.

Randy George

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

By the time, we complete this plan, we will have complete coverage of the South China Sea, we will have 24/7 awareness of what is happening in the disputed area and we'll be able to respond quicker to any contingency in our own exclusive economic zone.

Del Rosario

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Very clearly, you have a huge humanitarian risk if the conflict escalates, we are ready if it happens. But at the same time, I would rather express some pragmatic optimism that the Minsk process will yield results. But if it doesn't, we have taken contingency measures.

Neal Walker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they (the militants) want to try and reinforce, whether it's Mosul or some other location, we want to make sure we're ready, if they want to flee, we'll want to make sure that we have that contingency covered as well.

David Haworth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people.

Orrin Hatch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people, i'm committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare's broken promises.

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people, i’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Japan is keen to play a more active role in the world and it will be exposed to more dangers than it is accustomed to and it needs contingency plans for the future.

Yoel Sano

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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