Sentence examples for contingent found from inspiring English sources

And when the first tower roared and fell, shooting steel and concrete through the air, the doctor and his contingent found themselves well within the "kill zone".

The report, The Lure of the Syrian War: The Foreign Fighters' Bosnian Contingent, found that in 2013 and 2014, 156 Bosnian men and 36 women travelled to Syria, taking with them 25 children.

The Australian contingent found the local forces ill-prepared for an attack by the Japanese and recommended significant increases in air capability, both in Australia and the Pacific Islands, to meet the threat.

He was the RAAF's delegate to a defence conference in Singapore in October 1940, where the Australian contingent found the local forces ill-prepared for an attack by the Japanese, and recommended significant increases in air capability, both in Australia and the Pacific Islands, to meet the threat.

As observed in the book Raw Deal, a 2015 survey commissioned by the Freelancers Union and Elance (a web-based platform for online, contingent work) found that 53 million workers had engaged in supplemental, temporary, or project- or contract-based work in the past 12 months.

There is a sizeable contingent who find the idea that their children will eventually have normal sexual urges disquieting, with some physicians also voicing opposition on moral grounds.

So a technique called contingent valuation finds out (through an opinion poll) what people would be prepared to pay for a particular good or service if it weren't provided free, "valuing" diverse cultural institutions, from Irish public broadcasting via Durham Cathedral to the British Library (whose services provided £363m of notional value for a funding outlay of £83m).

The tech market is merciless, and even the pro-Aakash contingent may find itself rooting for something more practical after a few months.

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's 1540 1542 expedition began as a search for the fabled Cities of Gold, but after learning from natives in New Mexico of a large river to the west, he sent García López de Cárdenas to lead a small contingent to find it.

The largest contingent, the study found, came from the UK, with estimates of fighters running between 28 and 134.

In a systematic review, the practicality of TTO and CV (contingent valuation) was found to be generally good in patients with depression and schizophrenia.