Difference between Forces and Contingents

FORCES vs CONTINGENTS: NOUN

A powerful effect or influence
A group of people having the power of effective action
Group of people willing to obey orders
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
(of a law) having legal validity
One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
A unit that is part of some military service
Physical energy or intensity
The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (nearly always used in plural form only).
Troops (plural only).
Plural form of force.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of force.
Impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Do forcibly; exert force
Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Take by force
Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Move with force, He pushed the table into a corner movewithforcehepushedthetablei
Cause to move along the ground by pulling
Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :She forced him to take a job in the city tocausetodothroughpressureorne

Drive, Wedge, Forcefulness, Ram, Pull, Pull, Pressure, Thrust, Effect, Strength, Power, Push, Push, Personnel, Coerce

Squeeze, Violence, Drive, Wedge, Forcefulness, Ram, Pull, Pull, Pressure, Thrust, Effect, Strength, Push, Push, Personnel

Understandably, many younger students do not see the need to discriminate between electrostatic forces and magnetic forces.
United States Army that provides helicopter aviation support for general purpose forces and special operations forces.
Armed Forces, Para Military Forces, all State Police and Railway Protection Force is being implemented.
Philippines and with Filipino armed forces would be challenged without that Visiting Forces Agreement.
Friendly forces: All available information concerning the missions of next higher and adjacent forces.
You are a member of foreign armed forces from the Visiting Forces Act.
Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as coalition forces swept through the country.
Training of special operations forces with friendly foreign forces.
British regular army and Special Forces, as well as US, Australian, New Zealand Special Forces and other NATO forces.
The scheme applies to Armed Forces, Paramilitary Forces, State Police Forces and Railway Protection Force.

These have been used by a variety of UN contingents and other Commonwealth employees.
They were backed by heavily armed SWAT contingents conspicuously stationed at every subway stop.
Benton Barracks was the first parole camp to receive large contingents of men.
Protesters blocked the Pride parade on Saturday, delaying some contingents for hours.
Contingents of security forces were deployed at places where authorities apprehended demonstrations.
Because of its strategic position, Germany absorbed the biggest Allied contingents.
Regular contingents of students participate in the NOMAS national design competition.
Afghanistan as part of the Danish and German contingents.
However there were also contingents of regular foot soldiers.
These boast contingents from 100 to 1500 revellers.