historical contingency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandcontingency
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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contingency
noun[C]
uk/kənˈtɪn.dʒən.si/us/kənˈtɪn.dʒən.si/
something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandcontingencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhistorical contingency
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His thinking combined individualism with a sense of thehistoricalcontingencyof human existence in society.
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Independent ofhistoricalcontingency, natural selection is powerful enough for organisms living in similar environments to be shaped to similar ends.
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This is an important concept to keep in mind, even amidst the recognition of thehistoricalcontingencyof definitions of crime.
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My argument will be that this might very well have been a matter ofhistoricalcontingency, not inevitable superiority.
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That it held out for so long is mostly due tohistoricalcontingency.
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Anthropologists tend to emphasise the cultural diversity andhistoricalcontingencyof property relations.
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Complex non-linear systems, in general, typically are characterized by multiple domains of attraction; hencehistoricalcontingencyhas a large influence on their behaviours.
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Risse shows this as if the surgeons' inferiority was just an insignificanthistoricalcontingency, but we should consider his observation to be much more significant than he does.
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But human languages were multiplex in origin and formation, and exposed to all manner ofhistoricalcontingency and change, usually ill-known to the users of language themselves.
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Second, while this paper draws heavily on a rural political economy perspective, by highlighting the role ofhistoricalcontingencyit challenges the mechanistic thinking that often informs this field.
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Historicalcontingencymeans explanations at different levels may exist.
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What this petition shows is that social linkages were by no means obvious, but that they could be shaped precisely as historical contingencies.
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Is it reasonable to interpret the broad-scale trends and local spatial autocorrelation (the estimate) to represent patterns caused by historical contingencies and localized dispersal, respectively?
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Second language acquisition necessarily has different historical contingencies than first language acquisition, not the least of which is that the learner already knows a language.
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Their differences might for a time be brokered into combination, but their solidarity has frequently depended upon specific historical contingencies.
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Clearly, historical contingencies and differences between disturbance events can result in heterogeneous responses of species.
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Such experiments allow researchers to quantify the role ofhistoricalcontingencyand repeatability in network evolution, enabling predictions about the architecture and dynamics of large networks of interacting species.
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Economists had failed to look at the sources of preferences and the historical contingencies that permit economic institutions to develop.
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Therefore, it is important to consider how individuals modify, resist, and reconstruct dominant policy discourses and historical contingencies to achieve their local interests in different modalities of communication.
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