It is highly probable that the contingencies of food-supply or of war may have been an original cause for the constitution of the group, wholly or in part.
These contingencies are not in practice adequately provided against by wage-earners themselves.
Adequate social provision against these five contingencies along the lines suggested, would, it is believed, go a long way towards solving the problem of social dependency.
After eliminating all contingencies arising from clerical error and counteracting influence, the prognostication is sure of fulfilment.
To hold accounts against others, foretells that disagreeable contingencies will arise in your business, marring the smoothness of its management.
What these were we need not stop to mention,--only remarking that there were dresses of various patterns, which might afford an agreeable series of changes, and in certain contingencies prove eminently useful.
Brannan and Baird were withdrawn from the front which they had held, the former being sent toward the center to provide against contingencies there, and the latter posted to prevent any movement toward the Lafayette road at McDaniel's.
Not for many contingencies would Miss Wych have a fit of the nerves like this.
Some things are hard to talk of, which yet are in the thoughts; and contingencies take life and reality by being put in words.
He will guard against the contingencies of sickness and the probabilities of old age coming upon himself and those dependent on him.
The possibility of such contingencies arising will have far more weight than any argument based on the teaching of Jesus.
Fortunately they are so; since, under the possible contingencies of human strength and weakness, it might else happen that the grandeur of the principle should suffer dishonor through the incommensurate means for maintaining it.
What is called pure thought, thought freed from the empirical contingencies of life, would, even if it existed, be irrelevant to the guidance of action.
I'm never afraid of certainties; I'm only afraid of contingencies like missing a train.
By way of saving time he debated these contingencies very slowly to his wife.
It was the dissipation of a dream too much above mortal frailty, too much above the contingencies of chance and change, to be permanently realised.
And it ought to be remembered, that contingencies are generally speaking a kind of expenses, which though justified by necessity are unprovided for by express appropriation, and which therefore ought as much as possible to be avoided.
But I would observe, that to the account of the contingencies of this office, ought to be carried the expense not only of office rent, stationary, &c.
That the articles of contingencies therein mentioned, are carried out on conjecture, and therefore the sum total may be somewhat more or less, according to circumstances.
Mrs. Baines, seeing the circular by accident, experienced a sense of relief, mingled with the professional disappointment of a diplomatist who has elaborately provided for contingencies which have failed to happen.
Hence, in holiday seasons, Mr. Baines weighed more heavily on his household than at other times, and his nurses relieved each other according to thecontingencies of the moment rather than by a set programme of hours.
See how desirable and wise such a course is, in order to avoid disagreeable contingencies in the form of discoveries afterwards.
One of the contingencies had then occurred in which the election went to the House of Representatives.
Dangers from such contingencies are too great and obvious to be insisted upon.
It is, in words and intention, a standing authority to borrow that limited sum, for the obvious purpose of preventing a constant keeping of a sum of money in hand as a reserve, to meet contingencies which hardly ever occur.
Congress can only require a branch, in any State, after two contingencies have happened in the State; neither of them having the slightest reference to the necessities, or even convenience, of the federal government.
Thus for the needs of the present and the contingencies of the future the retention of the British West Indies under the national flag gives strength to our general system of defence.
Some persons have had new lights, but those who have not are no more unpatriotic in saying that the possession and its uses are as dust in the balance compared with its evil contingencies than was Sir Henry Taylor.
Superiority of force is often checked by the proverbial contingencies of war.
Especially are such contingencies revealed in rankest absurdity, where nations, as is the acknowledged custom, without regard to their respective forces, whether weaker or stronger, voluntarily appeal to this mad umpirage.
The value of magazine material is an old story, but its worth is self-evident in a progressive business house whose aim is to anticipate future contingencies as well as to meet present needs.
He always refused to recognize unpleasant contingencies till he found himself confronted with them, and then he saw them followed by a special train of consequences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contingencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
