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It would be imprudent of the Pentagon not to be developing contingency plans.
The report shows civil servants are making contingency plans for an influx of 14m new arrivals.
These two amounts should be added together plus some cushion for unforeseen contingency.
The meetings also involve the contractor in the contingency planning process.
Army planners are already working on the contingency plans for that eventuality.
Military planners in the US are already drawing up contingency plans, focusing on suspected underground facilities.
The government also came up with a set of contingency plans featuring the reduction of energy consumption.
From the news side perspective, the main tool for smoothing earnings was the contingency budget.
He said that in view of the prevailing drought conditions, the state Agriculture Department had prepared a contingency crop scheme.
Buckingham uses contingency, the unfixing of meaning and the ephemeral as elements in his own labor process.
Depending on your perspective, such an event may be a contingency or an eventuality.
If the provision of a contingency sum were normal practice, why would the Department of Health see the need to investigate the matter?
Tour operators throughout Ireland were yesterday endeavouring to make contingency plans to cope with thousands of travellers.
Classic structural contingency theory holds that the structure of an organization must match the dictates of the environment.
Then it's just a matter of desperate fumbling and trusting to my contingency planning.
In my view he would be derelict in his duty if he didn't have a contingency plan.
They provide a payout based on a contingency, charging a premium for the privilege.
If, for instance, a sum of money is payable on a contingency, there is no debt owing or accruing.
Running an Internet cafe at his native place with two like-minded youngsters, Thamby has his own funds for meeting contingency expenses.
Consultants are jumping in and frightening boards of directors into covering every contingency at huge expense.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Both are classified as a whorl and referenced to a loop to take care of the rare contingency of nonappearance.
We may at least console ourselves with the reflexion that such a contingency is far off.
It is not at all probable that the red-legged partridge will ever drive out our own bird, a contingency which some have feared.
No neurectomy should be undertaken unless this contingency has been allowed for.
The acquisition of every shipyard in the country was also contemplated as a contingency.
Thus he determined, and thus no doubt he would have acted but for an unforeseen contingency.
This was a contingency not possible, as we have just seen, in the Spokane case.
A contingency is simply an indeterminable future event, which may or may not be attended with danger or risk.
It is with the contingency of being that criticism of Darwinism and Lamarckism of the dogmatic type has to deal.
Such a contingency as this had never been foreseen by that dispenser of proverbs.
In her distraught state of mind she had scarcely pondered that contingency.
Temping, locum tenens, and contingency work aren't dirty words to the technically gifted.
Steven Whitehead, the chief contingency planner for the Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command.
Few managers realize that discussing a company's future plans with a contingency is alienating, not encourgaging.
We even joked very pleasantly, if I remember rightly, on the very probable contingency of your being charged by the cardinal with my arrest.
He left nothing whatever to chance, but provided for every contingency.
That was a contingency that never had occurred to White Connal.
Judge Pyncheon's neck is too precious to be risked on such a contingency as a stumbling steed.
The department has contingency plans to ensure that no resident will go without water even when the taps begin to run dry, she added.
Napoleon's offer had already been discussed at Tilsit as a contingency.
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