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825 examples of Contract in a sentence

We'll make it part of the contract."
And that was a stroke of absolute genius, because what they did was they harnessed the power of the contract, private power, to deliver public goods.
And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.
But you lose that contract for a major brand name, that's the difference between staying in business or going bankrupt.
Many people who contract polio in developing countries do not have access to the same medical care, education, or opportunities like I have had in America.
He had just signed the contract to sell his New York apartment at a six-figure profit, and he'd only owned it for five years.
These electrodes act like mini pacemakers to get the cells to contract in the lab.
And one activist actually found a contract from a Western company for the sale of surveillance technology to the Egyptian security forces.
You can consciously contract the muscles in your cheeks.
Every time you contract a muscle, it emits a little electricity that you can record with antennae or electrodes and use that to operate the motorized prosthesis.
You squeeze your hand, these muscles contract.
You open it, these muscles contract.
You send a command down, it causes muscles to contract.
So, come on, this is an automobile insurance contract.
This one, I signed a renting contract to the new office on Friday and I laughed my head off.
On the left side of a contract: "It is agreed that the insurance company, bla bla bla, bla bla bla, bla bla..." This is a before and after example.
Turn to the gentleman in the little suite and say: "Look here, this contract, this part, what does this mean?"
So the first is, when you've got one of these devices going, such as this contract to write everyday or pay, it's just a constant reminder that you have no self-control.
And you can see here the Keystone Pipeline, which would take tar sands raw down to the Gulf Coast, punching a pipeline through the agricultural heart of North America, of the United States, and securing the contract with the dirtiest fuel in the world by consumption of the United States, and promoting a huge disincentive to a sustainable clean-energy future for America.
The repeated infection will scar your eyelids so that they contract and they turn inside out.
Normal technology or innovation happens like this: Somebody has an interesting idea, some other scientist or engineer, they take it to the next level, they make a theory about it and maybe they patent it, and then some industry will make a contract of exclusivity to manufacture and sell it, and then, eventually, a buyer will buy it, and we hope that they are going to use [it] for a good purpose.
Andrew spent 16 years scavenging materials on the dump, earned enough money to turn himself into a contract scaler, which meant he carried a scale and went around and weighed all the materials that people had scavenged from the dump.
And when I think about that, first of all I think that government is a social contract between the people and the government, and if the government isn't transparent, then the people aren't going to be transparent either, but also that we're blaming the little guy who doesn't pay his taxes, and we're not recognizing that everyone's fudging things all over the world, including some extremely respected businesses, and I'll give you one example.
And so all of these things are part of the clinical study that we've created, so you can actually come in, all you have to be is 14 years old, willing to sign a contract that says I'm not going to be a jerk, basically, and you're in.
Those sweets were a bribe from a contractor who was trying to get my father to award him a government contract.
But the day after he got an LFC, he hopped in it, rode that kilometer, opened up his shop and soon after landed a contract to make school uniforms and started making money, started providing for his family again.
And I met with this editor, and I left New York for a contract for my first book, "Good Night, Monkey Boy," which was published on June 12, 2001.
We want to contract that gap.
Imagine if water pipes could expand or contract to change capacity or change flow rate, or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves.
When you flex your ankle, muscles in the front of your leg contract, simultaneously stretching muscles in the back of your leg.
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