contingent nature

collocation in English

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contingent
adjective
uk
/kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/us
/kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/
depending on something else in the future in order ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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Thecontingentnatureof song selection suggests that such performances of personal and socio-historical excavation should be possible with a wide range of cultural artefacts.
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Rather, one must recognise the continuing, incremental andcontingentnatureof the process of democratisation.
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At every turn the author is at pains to state thecontingentnatureof the practice.
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Its verycontingentnaturecould itself be an argument for treating it as a distinctive category.
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Thiscontingentnatureof ethnicity marks the point of departure of scholars who share the second perspective that trains the searchlight on democratisation.
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The third hypothesis stressed thecontingentnatureof the effect of member states' incentives to deviate on the likelihood of compliance.
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Given thecontingentnatureof performance, mimetic consistency was relatively unimportant: a player could (and did) alter his fictive character to suit the demands and opportunities of performance.
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To provide an alternative explanation, this article reasserts the importance of 'issues ' to the debate, and underlines thecontingentnatureof the relationship between representative and constituents.
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This style and the desire, correctly in my view, to emphasise the ever-flexible andcontingentnature of groupwork does make the text wordy and in places quite dense.
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Ahearn concludes the chapter with ethnographic examples that demonstrate the ambivalent relationship between agency and resistance and thecontingentnatureof social practices.
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The order before us is, therefore, of acontingentnature.
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Itscontingentnaturewas not always understood as a divide originating all kinds of dualisms.
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Farmer adds to both traditions by focusing on thecontingentnatureof meaning itself, especially emphasizing its fragile and elusive nature.
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Thecontingentnatureof future profits in real option models is captured by employing the techniques developed for financial options in the literature on contingent claims analysis.
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