Facts are the only solid Tests of Truth, and the only Proofs which are liable to no Ambiguity: And if we appeal to these, may we not suppose that everyContingency that furnished a Pretence for Trifling and Delay, was gladly embraced.
There was but one contingency that could make Marius a necessary man.
But the contingency was distant, and, even if it arose, the government might employ his skill while keeping him in a subordinate position.
This contingency is harshness in the treatment and trial of ex-President Davis, and more especially his execution as a traitor.
There must be a book of ten thousand pages entitled "The Perfect Valet," dealing with every contingency of domestic life which this admirable fellow has by heart.
I perceived that somehow or other the very contingency I had feared had come to pass.
Somehow such a contingency had not entered my bewildered head.
We agreed that three should fire upon him at once, reserving the fourth charge for whatever contingencymight happen.
However, though he believes these results would follow from the formation of a Stanley Government, he does not, I am sure, for a moment, contemplate such a contingency as within the limits of possibility.
I thank God that I regard this contingencywith the utmost tranquillity or insensibility.
The new law met this contingency by the requirement that the railroad should quote the rate upon written request; and should be liable to a penalty of $250 for mis-statement from which loss to the shipper should result.
This contingency has been guarded against by an ingenious provision.
This was a contingency not possible, as we have just seen, in the Spokane case.
And thus we find that, when an extraordinary contingency arises in life, as just now in ours, we have only to go to our pork-barrel, and the fish rises to our hook or spear.
If they expect in anycontingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying, "Now is the time.
In the contingency of his removal, however, I have recommended William Butler as his successor, and I do not wish what I write now to be taken as any abatement of that recommendation.
But he was obliged to confess to himself that neither contingency seemed likely to happen.
Mr. Gallatin in his combinations never contemplated such a contingency as the total destruction of the fiscal agency on which the government had relied for twenty years.
The near contingency imposed the necessity of an immediate examination of the sources of revenue.
This is all true; but is this indissoluble connexion, or necessity, at all inconsistent with the contingency of the event known?
The conspirators in their bonds had expressly provided for the contingency of her death.
To conceive the contingency of an object, is to possess the positive idea that it is contingent.
The contingency of Mary's death was provided for in the bond.
That they might break them up for the sake of the nails was a contingency that would have to be faced, as he dared not leave a small guard to protect them, and had not men enough to be able to leave a large one.
Drake counted them before getting under cover again, and found that there were thirty of them; and that there might possibly be others searching elsewhere, was a contingency to be kept in mind.
Both the circumstances of contingency and futurity are necessary": should be, "The circumstances of contingency and futurity are both necessary.
Organic disease of the heart is by no means an uncommon contingency if tightlacing be persevered in; for that organ is not allowed room to beat, nor the blood to circulate.
Why is the South susceptible to this intense degree of offence at the ordinary contingency of defeat in a political encounter?
Perhaps this feeling of surety was because every possible contingency had been discounted, perhaps because the setbacks and knock-out blows received in the past had dulled my sense of danger.
Every possible contingency that years of experience had taught me to expect was provided for, every weak spot guarded, every precaution taken.
But to make sure, and possibly to provide against the contingency of having to eliminate Garvin, some rude map was needed; and this one of the plunderers was evidently trying to draw under instructions from the witling.
You may remember that I told you I should leave my will here against a contingency which seemed altogether probable.
Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once.
By all means avoid the contingency of a foot race to see which, you or Hood, can beat to the Ohio.
Thereupon the Pope, perceiving the trend of affairs, and that the only likely profit to be derived from the campaign would lie with Venice, suddenly changed sides that he might avoid a contingency so far removed from all his aims.
It was for such a contingency as this that provision was made by the clause concerning them in Cesare's treaty with Louis.
That such may be the outcome is a contingency which the argument will have to meet and to allow for; but it is after all a contingency that need not be expected to derange the sequence of events, except in the way of retardation.
Such an outcome would be extreme, but as a remote contingency it is to be taken into account.
On the contingencyof such a course of events and some such outcome appears also to hang the chance of a workable pacific league.
Should such an eventuality overtake British popular sentiment and belief there is also the remote contingency that the rights of ownership and investment would lose a degree of sanctity.
It is, indeed, possibly the apprehension of some such contingency that has hurried the rapacity of the Island Empire into the headlong indecencies of the past year or two.
Except for the contingency of eventual hostilities, no national establishment could be kept in countenance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contingency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
