I. adjective
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liability
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Margin Rule 5-28 imposes various requirements in relation to margined contingent liability transactions.
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Clearly, the vendor will seek as large a consideration as possible, with as few contingent liabilities as possible.
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Instead, the vendor should be encouraged to identify, describe and quantify the actual and contingent liabilities arising from these disputes.
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What further contingent liabilities are being assumed elsewhere in the group?
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Compounds of limitation are derived at three different levels, from limitations which are continuous, contextual, and contingent .
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Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
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It is a necessarily existing source of all actuality, which actualises a subset of possibilities by a contingent act of will.
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Secondly, the integrity of pastoral systems and management processes is contingent upon their being reflected in all aspects of school management.
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The exchange was contingent upon planning permission for building being given on the vacated site.
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The physical realm is the realm of contingent , temporal, concrete and fuzzy particulars.
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There are two other contingent relations which should be mentioned at this stage.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
large
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There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total.
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There was also a surprisingly large contingent watching another golfer at his putting practice.
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But there was a surprisingly large contingent of newsmen.
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Hitachi has 15 subsidiaries providing software services, in addition to its large in-house data-processing contingent .
military
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On the Gulf crisis, Baker urged the deployment of a token Soviet military contingent as part of the multinational force.
small
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Even the smaller contingent was delayed: less than a quarter of it was in place by April 1st.
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But when violence broke out, it was from a small contingent of fans, not assassins.
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There was also a small contingent of Napster supporters carrying placards in support of the beleaguered music-swapping service.
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It sailed through Congress with the enthusiastic support of its new small business contingent and was signed into law by President Clinton.
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A small contingent of members were given the option of running either 15 or 21 miles.
strong
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Expect a strong southern contingent at Lisburn, intent on relieving Ballinascreen's Theresa Kidd of the ladies title.
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A small contingent of English fans had made the trip to Sydney to support their team.
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Not surprisingly, there was a large student contingent at the demonstration.
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There was a large American contingent , including the Olympic bronze medallist, Thomas Jefferson.
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A second contingent of base personnel departed early Monday morning.
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A small contingent of members were given the option of running either 15 or 21 miles.
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At the time he commanded a contingent of Katangese levies and about twenty white mercenaries at Watsa.
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His own contingent grew and when the shanyu died, he led his people off.
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If there was a substantial homosexual contingent at any one mass, it was composed of fairly discrete people.
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It is this prospect that has prompted trade union leaders with a public-sector contingent to be wary about the single currency project.
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Lack of Administrative Communication Job anxieties within the entire contingent continued, and dissatisfaction mounted.
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The trouble between Alan and the university contingent begins almost immediately.