The Chatterbox sent along a representative contingent – Chubster, Rusty James OneDave, manboet, dylillama and SuperSmashIn all attended and sampled delights including Dead Space 2, Killzone 3, Gran Turismo 5, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Motorstorm 3D, Kinect ("wobbly") and Crysis 2 ("buggy as hell").
There were no religious services or formal prayers, not even a representative clerical contingent.
Peter Allgeier, the deputy United States trade representative, acknowledged that his contingent would have been larger in normal times, but called the team "pared-down, effective and cooperative".
As representative for the nerd contingent, software engineer John Tyner's "Don't Touch My Junk" blog post was the viral tipping point that unleashed the Pandora's box of meta OMG WTF TSA round ups like this one.
The Administration contingent included representatives from the Domestic Policy Council, the Vice President's office, the Drug Czar's Office and the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
I hope New Yorkers will understand that this rowdy contingent is not representative of the vast majority of Twins fans.
But then there is Amina Lone, a second generation immigrant from Pakistan, who says the views of a small contingent are not representative of the British Asian community.
The building, the local Baath Party headquarters, had been occupied by a Syrian Army contingent, the last representatives of the regime in Zabadani.
This is also why a substantial contingent of Asian representatives attended a meeting on Arctic policy in northernmost Norway that I spoke at in late spring.
And, she said, Roland Betts, his representative with the city's Olympic contingent, is among Mr. Bush's closest friends.
A contingent of supporters of Representative Ron Paul of Texas, an unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate, ousted the party leadership in a showdown in the spring.
