contingency

Example Sentences

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Beijing also intended to show Tokyo what kind of trouble a Taiwan contingency could cause, said James Yifan Chen, who teaches diplomacy and foreign policy at Taiwan’s Tamkang University.

From The Wall Street Journal

NI Water said they have "robust contingency planning arrangements in place and will seek to minimise the impact of any industrial action taken".

From BBC

The BLS’s choice to carry forward previous shelter costs was in line with longstanding contingency plans for missing data, the agency said.

From The Wall Street Journal

For now, he and his family can remain in Turkey, but he's already making contingency plans in case government policy changes.

From BBC

According to testimony from Rishe Khalili, firefighters’ use of bulldozers to put a contingency line around that fire ended up harming astragalus.

From Los Angeles Times