Have you heard the term contributory negligence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Rape Culture and Gender Thread] Reference

In addition, I think what is at stake here is the idea of contributory infringement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvel & NCSoft Update] Reference

In fact, their role in his injury could almost be characterized as contributory negligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

CASARES: However, Alex Sanchez, there is something in civil law called contributory negligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007] Reference

Third, there is a concept of "contributory" involvement in the law, which is that you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blah, Blah! Technology] Reference

If this was not contributory copyright infringement, what was?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

None can explain it, yet certain contributory causes can be named.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference

The following conditions may be regarded as contributory to eczema.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

And, though reluctantly, he granted Freud contributory significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Alliance] Reference

They often, nevertheless, act as a contributory factor to a movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

For this unfortunate circumstance there were many contributory causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

But differences in training and past experience are also contributory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

I say nothing of the climate of tropical India as a contributory cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

The exchequer failed rapidly, and there were several contributory reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

The latter are contributory causes, but the former is the fundamental cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within You is the Power] Reference

I think they now understand that we can participate in a safe and contributory way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Chat: At The Final Frontier] Reference

In this manner a formidable contributory source of danger to the airship is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

A contributory system of cash benefits for sickness also obtains in some of the mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919] Reference

Alcorn's chances of success, it appears to have been a contributory cause of his defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference

Even Cale Schell's memoranda book cannot be taken as evidence, save in a contributory way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Europe's early youth comes from the contributory and dimly illuminative rays of folk-lore.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference

The position of the woman is a matter of choice and is not contributory to the results at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Thus, Napster cannot be liable as a contributory infringer, just as Sony could not be liable for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

A contributory cause is the consumption of large quantities of sweets or candies, especially between meals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference