Sentence examples for contingents were from inspiring English sources

United Nations officials said that in any case no national contingents were immediately ready for such an operation.

In their first six-month deployment, the paras fired about half a million rounds.Subsequent British contingents were similarly stretched out.

As they did, Taliban contingents were seen Thursday in at least two other districts and areas still closer to the capital, according to Pakistani government officials and residents.

They were the revolt's primary military force until 1576, when the other provinces joined in resistance to Spain and more regular military contingents were formed.

Instead of competing to throw the biggest beachfront parties, agencies tried to one-up each other by bragging about how bare-bones their Cannes contingents were this time around.

The army and air force contingents were sleeping there too, so it was crowded with service personnel.

Its largest foreign Arab contingents are from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia, nations that are all alarmed by its appeal.

At present, the biggest foreign contingents are from Australia (30 firms) and Canada (28).

Future contingents are contingent statements about the future — such as future events, actions, states etc.

If contingents are composites, then one element of the composition is active and ontologically prior.

Future contingents are thus necessarily unknowable (Freedom of the Will, 1754; Edwards 1957–, vol. 1, 259).