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Seacop
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Strategic sealift contingency planning.
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Contingency, английский
- With respect to radiation protection , contingency means preparing for, and taking action, in the event of an unplanned release of radioactive material or other unplanned radiation incident which could lead to radiation exposure to the individual, the pop
- Случайность. непредвиденное обстоятельство. чрезвычайное обстоятельство.
- Сопряженность признаков; ассоциация качественных признаков
- An amount of money, included in the budget for building construction, that is uncommitted for any specific purpose. this amount is intended to cover the cost of unforeseen factors related to the construction which are not specifically addressed in the budget.
- An additional amount or percentage added to any cash flow item (ie. capex). care is needed to ensure it is either to be spent or to remain as a cushion.
- If a property is contingent, or the contract contains a contingency, certain events must transpire or the contract can be considered null. a contingency might be that the home must past an appraisal or receive a clean inspection.
- A provision in a contract stating that some or all of the terms of the contract will be altered or voided by the occurrence of a specific event. a common example is a buyer who enters into the purchase of another home before his current home is sold. the buyer will usually ask for the seller to make the sale contingent upon the sale of the buyer’s current home. if the seller receives another offer for the property, the first buyer must either agree to buy the home without any contingency, or step aside and let someone else purchase the home.
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Seagull, английский
[1] usn slang for (a) chicken served aboard ship, or (b) a woman who follows her man from port to port. [2] seagull has no meaning in ornithology, but is used by laypeople to refer to all birds of the laridae family. these are typically coastal or inland, rarely venturing far out to sea. an ancient superstition holds that gulls landing in flocks on a ship, or making a loud noise along the coast, prognosticates a storm. this belief goes back to the classical era, being mentioned by pliny, while virgil writes in the georgics: scarce can the billow spare the curved keels, when swift the sea-gulls from the middle main come winging, and their shrieks are shoreward borne
Seaclergy, английский
During the 16th–17th centuries, it was widely believed that some aquatic creatures resembled christian priests. in des monstres (1578), ambroise pare described a “marine monster” resembling a bishop dressed in full pontifical garments; while in physica curiosa (1662), the illustrations of caspar sea 280 schott show an assortment of sea monsters, including a fish resembling a monk, a marine monster looking like a bishop, and two chimerical creatures with long, fishy tails. similar depictions appeared in numerous other works, and it has been suggested that religious tensions might have contributed to the depiction of clerical figures as alleged monsters. in 1854, naturalist japetus steenstrup compared 16th century illustrations of “sea monks” to that of a giant squid captured in 1853, coming to the conclusion, “the sea monk is firstly a cephalopod.”
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