Sentence examples for advance contingent from inspiring English sources

He marched in the advance contingent of the People's Liberation Army that reached Lhasa in 1951 and became the most powerful Tibetan figure in the new communist regime.

THE PEACEKEEPERS ARE COMING -- An advance contingent of international peacekeeping troops, led by Britain, will arrive in Kabul next Saturday, in time for the swearing in of the new interim government of Afghanistan.

Britain formally advised the United Nations yesterday that it would lead a security force in Kabul, Afghanistan, and that an advance contingent of 200 soldiers was expected to arrive by Saturday for the swearing in of the interim government.

The team of Bernhard Förster and his wife, Elisabeth, the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, had an ambitious plan: nothing less than the establishment of a colony from which an advance contingent of Aryans could forge a claim to the entire South American continent.

B3 BRITISH MOVE -- Britain told the United Nations that it would lead a security force in Kabul and that an advance contingent of 200 soldiers was expected to arrive in the Afghan capital by Saturday for the swearing in of the new interim government.

Historically, most biomedical advances have been contingent upon advances in physics and chemistry, and the application of those techniques in biology and medicine.

This is an interesting, if minor, illustration of the general point that scientific advance is often contingent upon more or less explicit background metaphysical views.

Kurdish troops backed by foreign special forces including a Turkish contingent advanced on a town near Mosul on Sunday, pushing to within five miles (nine kilometres) of the northern Iraqi city as Islamic State launched another diversionary attack on the western town of Rutba.

Consequently, to a large extent, the advances in the breath analysis field are contingent on advances in analytical chemistry.

They are the advance guard of a contingent expected to grow to 250 after further negotiations with Syria.

Facing the Frankish invasion in the summer of 553, Narses ordered Artabanes and other generals to occupy the passes of the Apennines and harass the enemy advance; after a Byzantine contingent was defeated at Parma, however, the other Byzantine generals withdrew to Faventia, until an envoy from Narses persuaded them to move up to the area of Parma again.