Sentence examples for a modest contingent from inspiring English sources

The UK confirmed on Monday that it had sent a modest contingent of British military advisers to Helmand at the weekend to support the overstretched forces.

At Steinbrenner Field, however, a more modest contingent of reporters from Japan, perhaps a dozen, recorded the efforts of Hiroki Kuroda, the 37-year-old veteran pitcher who made his debut for the Yankees.

A small contingent of three athletes was sent to Rio to compete with modest ambitions in track and field and judo.

It is now more than a half century since Paris for the first time began to be included in the memories of a small contingent of youngish American expatriates, richer than most in creative ambition and rather modest in purse.

Several NATO and non-NATO countries with troops in Afghanistan had said they would leave modest contingents behind for training only if the United States did so.

The church was worried that he would not be able to live out his years in an appropriate manner, and passed a resolution to give him a modest monthly honorarium contingent on the church's future prosperity.

"It is not a modest number," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today, describing the size of the American contingent to a group of radio reporters.

Ninety-seven countries are represented in Mount Vernon: small contingents from Senegal and Cape Verde; large groups from the West Indian nations of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago; a modest presence from China and Korea; and relatively recent arrivals from Latin America, according to the mayor's office.

These include Iraqi army, Kurdish forces, Iraqi Shia militias, Iranian 'volunteers', around 3,500 US troops, an Australian contingent of 600, including excellent special forces, about to rise to a thousand, as well as a modest British contribution of 275.

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I'm a modest actor.