contingencies

I immediately made a full-price offer with no contingencies.

The base is also one of an “extremely limited number of places worldwide available to reload submarines” with weapons like Tomahawk missiles, says Mr Savill, and the US has positioned a large amount of equipment and stores there for contingencies.

Speaking to BBC Sport last month, Bournemouth owner Bill Foley said they had contingencies in place if a club triggered Dominic Solanke’s release clause - with the England international joining Tottenham last week in a deal worth up to £65m.

If I learned anything in researching and writing “Takeover”, it was that the final outcome of any event is ultimately determined by political contingencies.

A Pentagon statement said the new deployments would "improve US force protection... increase support for the defence of Israel, and ... ensure the US is prepared to respond to various contingencies".