The phrase "a core contingent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a fundamental or essential group within a larger organization or context.
Example: "The project was successful due to the efforts of a core contingent of dedicated volunteers who worked tirelessly."
Alternatives: "a key group" or "an essential team".
But in Syria, each side has bloodied the other while many stay on the sidelines, and a core contingent of supporters feels obligated to stick with the government even as their doubts grow.
A core contingent of the ACLU leadership hoped that an expansive interpretation of the 1st Amendment could pave the way to fundamental economic change, above all through the movement to organize America's workers.
To me that sounds like a speculative bubble, but there is a core contingent of people who believe that as some point Bitcoin will be used for everything they call it "hyperbitcoinization". The way you're describing it, it sounds like people are treating Bitcoin like a collectable comic book more than a currency.
And the proposed relocation of 8,000 US troops from Okinawa will only happen provided Washington is assured of the southern Japanese island's role as a forward-deployment base for its core contingent of marines.
I think it will be a difficult audience because it is not their core contingent". U2's propensity to play large-scale spectacular gigs was one of the reasons they had not yet played the festival, McGuinness said.
That core contingent includes artists like trippy house auteur A Sagittariun, mysterious producers with names like Grain and Moss, and, of course, Welsh, whose inaugural Gentinetta EP drops May 5.
The president's core contingent of ardent young supporters are not the only ones on the march.
The Neil Sedaka tune "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" was savvy as far as appealing to his core contingent of teenage girls.
But there is often another contingent — a core group of new families who are "drawn to a school that looks promising," Ms. Szuflita said.
As the gig economy spreads and contingent workers become a core component of the enterprise business model, the private sector will gain a greater stake in the debate and increase the pressure on the next president sworn into office to drive change.
A core tenet of evolutionary theory is that the ability of species to adapt and persist through changing environments is contingent on latent functional responses suited to new conditions1.
