Sentence examples for The modern contract from inspiring English sources

And deep down, people who work for a living understand the modern "contract" between worker and employer is barely worth the paper it is written on.

The building was constructed by the firm of George A. Fuller, who trained as an architect but made his mark as the creator of the modern contracting system in building construction.

His work in Slade's Case led to the rise of modern contract law, and his actions in the Case of Proclamations and the other pleadings which led to his eventual dismissal went some way towards securing judicial independence.

For an excellent overview of these issues, see chapter 1 of James Gordley's The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine (1991).

Don't artists and songwriters deserve a modern contract with the most valuable company on the planet?

This article provides an overview of modern contract theory and discusses the implications of the theory for contracting for perennial dedicated energy crops.

Here, the analysis of Freeman and Medoff is consistent with modern contract theory, wherein governance refers to the policing and/or monitoring of incomplete employment contracts.

By putting consent at the center of their contracts these early modern contract theorists (1) were clearly supposing that individuals had basic normative powers over themselves before they entered into the social contract (a point that Hume [1741] stressed), and (2) brought the question of political obligation to the fore.

The leaked papers provided a glimpse of the true nature of the modern social contract between global business and nation states.

The modern version, contract bridge, was created in 1925 by the railroad heir and master yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who had been annoyed by what he felt were deficiencies in the previous version, auction bridge.

But there was nothing approaching a plan to restructure the modern social contract for an age when Wal-Mart, and not G.M., employed the most Americans, in the same imaginative way that the New Dealers had dreamed up a compact to meet the challenge of an earlier day".