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Discover LudwigThe phrase "allow a contingent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or acceptance is granted for a specific group or condition to take place.
Example: "The committee decided to allow a contingent of volunteers to participate in the event."
Alternatives: "permit a group" or "authorize a contingent".
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Despite growing concern among American diplomats and allies in the region that the Iraqi Prime Minister was an increasingly sectarian and despotic figure, Biden considered Maliki the only viable option, and was confident that he would allow a contingent of U.S. forces to stay.
These shifts frequently correspond to heritable but reversible mutations at specific 'contingency loci' (i.e. hypermutable loci that allow a contingent response to changing environmental circumstances) (Zieg et al. 1977; Kearns et al. 2004; Martin et al. 2005; Moxon et al. 2006).
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In 1944, she was used on aircraft training duties in the Western Approaches Command, which allowed a contingent from the ship to visit the town and march through its streets.
One of Ghani's first acts as president is expected to be signing a bilateral security agreement to allow a small contingent of US forces to remain to train and assist the new Afghan army and police.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Representatives of the United Nations and Syrian government moved on Wednesday toward reaching an agreement that would allow a full contingent of 250 observers to deploy in Syria to monitor a fragile cease-fire, despite suggestions from Syrian officials that they intended to restrict some aspects of the operation, including the independent use of helicopters.
There Obama sought a status of forces (SOF) agreement with Kabul that would allow a small contingent of American forces to remain in that country to help train indigenous recruits.
Western allies have struck a tentative deal with Croatia to allow a sharply reduced contingent of United Nations peacekeepers to remain in the country, senior Administration officials said today.
He allowed a small contingent to return in 2004.
By the end of 1914 around 53,000 volunteers had been accepted, allowing a second contingent to depart in December.
Mark-Viverito's openly gay predecessor, Christine Quinn, who is of Irish descent, refused to march in the parade but still allowed a City Council contingent to participate.
A heuristic checklist provides general instructions for how to structure information in order to allow a medical team to arrive at provisional action plans, but does not prescribe sequential or contingent steps, as algorithmic checklists do.
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