Contingency Quotes (81 Quotes)

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

We didn't know Al was leaving, but I wanted a contingency plan if he did leave us high and dry, which he did. But he didn't. He knew we had a goalie. Would he have still left Probably. But at least from our perspective, it wasn't like the whole team was depending on Al Montoya.

It appears to be that way. There should be a contingency plan, especially for events (that involved) a big number of people.

To the extent we can prepare for that (a strike), we are preparing a contingency plan.

Should all the contingencies be met, the hotel would then be sold.

We are getting a lot of practice addressing hurricane-related contingencies. Fortunately, we have had excellent communication and we are getting great cooperation from our members.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

There are seven other states that have adopted the contingent tax credit plan and, to date, there's no record of those states having to cash in those tax credits.

We are also trying to fight the rain. We have to put a contingency plan to cover the red carpet in place if it's going to rain. It's a big job.

We have a contingency plan to bring in boys and girls. It will be an education for them.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Law enforcement is helpless, ... It's not like Israeli fighters who train every day for every contingency. Conventional law enforcement just can't match the skills needed. Besides, you can't trust law enforcement to keep your secrets from becoming public knowledge.

You need to ask yourself whether it is prudent to be traveling in the next couple of weeks and, if you do go, have a contingency plan for being stuck.

The potential that violent contingencies could have been offered for trade in the Pentagon-backed PAM completely eclipsed the true intent and merit of that research project. To include such contingencies again would undermine the effort to demonstrate the technology because we would never get to the merits.

I don't think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can.

Parking is in such high demand that any disturbance is going to have an effect. They're unavoidable projects, but most businesses have to build a number of contingencies into their business plan.

The show is going on 100 Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

The Polish view seems to be a contingency view. If the EU cannot reach a deal with Russia, then the Poles seems to be saying Europe needs alternative plans. But it is clear several member states will not want to exclude Russia. Germany has already made that clear to Poland.

It's a theoretical proposition in the future, contingent on dismantlement having taken place, (North Korea) re-signing up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and having IAEA safeguards in place.

This is a new plan and to some extent it's all guesswork. We've been working very hard to make sure we've covered all the contingencies.

The NBL has a number of contingency plans to evaluate if the Pirates aren't involved next season, but we're certain our push for one dedicated basketball night will remain, regardless of who plays in the new 12-team league.

He enrolled in school as a contingency plan.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

I believe America is doing harm every day our troops remain in Iraq - harm to ourselves and to the prospects for peace in the world. I would remove our troops expeditiously, without contingency. President Bush's mistake is not worth the life or maiming of more American soldiers.

Obviously, we've got to have a contingency plan, but I'm going from the standpoint that we're going to get it done. We'll address that if we have to. To me, that's down the road. ... We're talking about a guy that to me you don't replace.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

You would expect the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the whole Department of Defense community to be working on all sorts of contingencies for various situations, and you can be assured that's happening,

They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

One may, with Hartshorne and other rationalist philosophers, press rationality to the point of postulating certain necessary truths for which we have no conceivable alternatives. Or, like Buddhist thinkers of many periodsand like Wieman, tooone may find in the very conditions of contingency a religious significance that informs the whole quality of life as lived. Contingency embraced without any nostalgia or yearning for necessary truth yields a different quality of life than contingency assented to as necessarily so in the absence of any conceivable alternative.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if William joined the contingent for Singapore speaking up for London

However, we are looking at a wide range of contingencies, potentially involving Title 10 forces (federal troops) if a pandemic outbreak of a biological threat were to occur,

Once these units return, it's important that they have the equipment to train and perform their vital military missions, ... The lack of equipment has not yet resulted in an inability to respond ... but it does not take much imagination to foresee a contingency where there could be negative impacts.

We don't feel like there's a gun to our head, honestly. We would feel a lot better if it was colder. But a week from now, we'll have to start making some decisions about kicking in some of our contingencies.

We see no basis for resuming negotiations. We are operating under a contingency plan implemented after the union decided to strike.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals do.

Develop a contingency plan. We tell clients, 'Don't be so foolish as to believe you'll never be successfully hit,' ... Develop a plan, so when things do go sour, you're ready.

We have our ducks in a row. It just depends if a deal takes place Wednesday ... or Sunday ... or Wednesday again. But we have a contingency plan based on all this.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

That contingency was constantly discussed and talked about. This wasn't any shock or any surprise to the team, to the players, to Harrison Beck, to his family, to the coaching staff, to the fans or to the media everybody knew this was coming.

We have substantial schedule slack at this point, almost a full year. So we would have to have substantial difficulties that we do not now envision in maintaining our flight rate in order to start any consideration of contingency plans.

It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of the contingency plan in its entirety,

We want them back as quickly as possible. We've implemented a contingency plan and the implementation of our contingency is on track. We're performing necessary work at facilities throughout Connecticut and other locations so we can meet our commitments to the U.S. military and other customers.

We have contingency factors built in for increased costs due to the market, and we can just move money from the contingency fund into the budget if we need to. I think we have all the big surprises taken care of, but we want to leave a pot of money for anything unforeseen. And there are things we can add back on if we have money left. With a job this big, though, I can assure you there will be changes.

RIM (is) freeing themselves of all these contingent, legal liabilities and this black cloud that has been overhanging the stock.

We go into Sunday many times looking at contingencies for those sorts of circumstances. And I don't anticipate anything different this time around.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

The young English contingent was a massive factor in my signing, the club has a very bright future.

Clearly our preference and our focus is making sure nothing changes from that. At the same time, I think it's very prudent to look at contingency plans.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.