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Today he said that if NATO came -- and 50 members of an initial contingent of 400 troops are scheduled to arrive on Friday -- his soldiers would, as promised, hand over all their weapons.

The regiment trained at various locations in the United Kingdom and increased from an initial contingent of 500 men to full battalion strength of 1,000 men, before being deployed.

An initial contingent of 33,000 troops sailed for England in October 1914 to lay the foundation for the creation of the 1st Canadian Division.

An initial contingent of 180 soldiers will fly to South Sudan next month, with the rest of the battalion following in March.

A medical clinic is about to open on site; its initial contingent of six doctors will service 500,000 potential patients in Doha's industrial zone.

Initial contingents of troops from Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Togo are now due to arrive within days.

Despite these gloomy trends, American commanders have continued to hint at the possibility of at least an initial reduction of the 140,000 American troops stationed here by next summer, contingent on progress in creating effective Iraqi units.

The transaction calls for an initial payment of $32 million in cash and stock this year and payments in 2005 and 2006 of up to $30 million contingent upon Fox's meeting certain financial performance targets.

A small contingent of people with a plump young man.

Despite initial reluctance, the South Korean government sent a contingent of noncombatant troops to join the American forces in Iraq this spring, but the government remains steadfastly neutral on the question of whether the North has nukes or is bluffing.

Outside of a small contingent of tech enthusiasts, smartwatches still mostly remain a novelty, after all.