Sentence examples for expanding contingent from inspiring English sources

But the expanding contingent clamoring for the backup Kellen Clemens to take the reins will have to wait at least another week.

Earlier this year, Anne and Robert Bass expanded the contingent of resident billionaires by spending $42 million for their 12th-floor apartment.

"I wanted to be a ballerina," the girl told another expanding and grateful contingent of reporters, "but now I like football".

That's right, in front of an expanding and grateful contingent of reporters already bored by calculatingly courteous coaches and the strategic wonders of ball-control offense, Cooper and He Hate Me are demonstrating their peculiar bonding scheme whereby Cooper greets his new friend and attempts to flip him over his shoulder.

My own grandmother, who was proud but of modest means, cheerfully handed out $5 McDonald's gift certificates at holiday time to an ever-expanding contingent of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

We should follow the example of other U.N. member states, including some countries in the Caribbean as well as the U.K., and the Netherlands, and expand the U.S. contingent to include members of civil society -- people with a distinct viewpoint who can engage in the proceedings and represent the views of drug users.

Issues such a research assessment exercises, income-contingent loans and financing the ever expanding costs of higher education are good examples.

In the spring, Mr. Snow, the firm's former chairman, led a contingent to Clifford Chance, an international law firm expanding on the West Coast.

It is widely argued that he was foolish, even reckless, to make the talks contingent on a freeze of building or expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the heartland of any future Palestinian state.

These processes relate to moving from a contingent to a gradually expanded target population, expanding the scope of the benefit package, and reducing the financial contribution from the insured.

The plan instead recommended monitoring the effects of climate change and expanding habitat improvement efforts, leaving dam removal as "a last resort" contingent upon a multiyear study of the dams.