Sentence examples for contingent were sent from inspiring English sources

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The international force and a United Nations police contingent were sent to East Timor in 2006 to quell widespread unrest.

In August, members of North Carolinas crew and Marine contingent were sent ashore to assist in occupying Japan.

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A similar contingent was sent to the Blue Grass Army Depot, near Richmond, Ky., and to five other depots.

An imperial army under Prince Eugene and reinforced by a Prussian contingent was sent to his aid and succeeded in uniting with the Savoyan forces and relieving Turin after a victorious battle (1706).

The Boer War, however, was declared a week later; Davies was quickly seconded to command a company of the volunteer First New Zealand Contingent being sent to the Cape.

At the news of this, a powerful Rus' force, along with many Bulgarians and a Pecheneg contingent, was sent south over the Balkan Mountains.

Finally, an armed SAS contingent was sent to board the ship, and they were transferred to a prison camp on Nauru.

The explosives were triggered on the 8th, but they failed, so a contingent was sent aboard Tosa on the 9th; they opened six Kingston valves in the engine room at about 01 25.

Contingents were sent from all around the region, the largest and "best dressed" of which was a group of 10,000 who had travelled from Oldham Green, comprising people from Oldham, Royton (which included a sizable female section), Crompton, Lees, Saddleworth and Mossley.

When the Boxer Rebellion broke out in China, Yamagata, at Great Britain's request, dispatched the largest of the foreign contingents that were sent to put down the uprising.

These ships contributed men to form the Battaglione Italiano in China (Italian Battalion in China); the contingents from Libia were sent to guard the consulates in Beijing and Shanhaiguan.

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