Sentence examples for contingent against from inspiring English sources
In 1604 he served with a Bohemian contingent against the Hungarians and ingratiated himself with the Habsburgs and with the Jesuits by his conversion to Catholicism (1606).
Reigns is starting to win a portion of the WWE Universe over, although there remains a large contingent against the former Shield star.
Several years later, Boleslav cooperated with Otto in combating the invasion of the Magyars and directed a Bohemian contingent against them at the Battle of Lechfeld (955).
His experience in the 1980s leading an Arab contingent against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan engendered a fierce sense of militancy.
The Radwanskas' sibling rivalry was obvious, but there were others: Maria Sharapova against herself (she nearly lost to a teen-ager), the Japanese contingent against their bodies (three of the country's athletes retired mid-match), and Bethanie Mattek-Sands against all accepted practices of style and decorum (she had applied elaborate black eye goop on both cheeks).
After becoming governor of Ethiopia, Basra, and Diyarbakir in that order, he successfully led an Ottoman contingent against Safavid Persia in 1579.
Because he feared for his life, David, along with 600 of his men, fled to the Philistine city of Gath, where he became a supposed leader of one of their military contingents against the Israelites.
They built castles, garrisoned important towns, and participated in battles, fielding significant contingents against Muslim armies until the fall of Acre, the last remaining Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, in 1291.
There was a large contingent from Veterans Against War.
But he concedes that with a strong American contingent up against him he may have to beat his personal best of 8.51m to take gold.
Lastly, the opinion upheld the Chancery Court's decision to credit Dell with only a $650 million contingent liability against fair value notwithstanding the fact that, following GAAP, the company had set aside a much larger amount (around $3 billion).
