0 a group of people representing an organization or country, or a part of a military force:
1 depending on something else in the future in order to happen:
2 a group of people representing an organization or country, or a part of a military force:
The conservative contingent walked out of the convention when their plan was rejected.
3 depending on or influenced by something else:
4 depending on something else in the future in order to happen:
First, one might hold that pairs of corresponding ' will ' and ' will-not ' propositions about future contingents are neither true nor false.
Thus, ' will ' and ' will-not ' propositions about future contingents are said to be neither true nor false.
In so doing, the supervaluationist approach undermines the assumption that ' will ' and 'will not ' are contradictories, which in turn undermines the motivation for denying bivalence for future contingents.
Although the percentage of right parties has no statistically significant influence for changes in total spending, legislatures with larger right-wing contingents are more likely to increase old-age pension expenditures.
Identifying the ethnic groups under study occasioned a silly sense of obligation to note that the selection ' does not signify the denial of the relevance of other contingents ' (p. 151).
However, the days when it was the primary scientific institution have passed, because the scientific research contingents of other institutions have caught up in quality and quantity.
Within a matter of days, not weeks, there were contingents, numbering several thousand, from many different countries.
I think it has shown that the system of national contingents does not work.
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