Sentence examples for approved contracts from inspiring English sources

Mayor Davis, who was not charged in the indictments, was chairman of the Urban Renewal Agency, which approved contracts and loans.

The teachers' union is a powerful force in electing board members, and it is those boards that have approved contracts with the benefits and job protections the governor reviles.

During his first term he created the Department of Sanitation, brought about unification of the city's public hospitals, and made considerable improvements in the playgrounds and park systems; and, under his guidance, the Board of Transportation approved contracts for the construction of an elaborate subway system.

Dr. Nabarro said he hoped that some of the money could come from the United Nations oil-for-food program, which has assets of about $13 billion, some $10 billion of which is earmarked to pay approved contracts for food, medicine and industrial goods.

In what an independent report concluded was "classic graft," the AG settled lawsuits and approved contracts with Fenty's former fraternity brothers, on favorable terms, with taxpayers footing the bill.

County supervisors recently approved contracts that will move about 1,000 of those offenders from county jails to government-run fire camps and to a prison in Kern County run by the city of Taft.

The US Airways Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection this month, said today that its training instructors had approved contract concessions needed to reduce expenses.

The subcontractors on Hudson's proposed contract included America Works, one of the companies that has an approved contract for welfare-to-work placements, which pay up to $5,000 for each recipient placed in a job.

"As a result of the review, we are expanding and upgrading our processes related to story selection and approval, how we approve contracts and payments and the way we conduct risk assessments.

They would be able to hire legal and analytical staff and would theoretically have the power to decide rate increases, approve contracts and hire general managers without City Hall approval.

Negotiations are proceeding, but late last year the authority all but stopped approving contracts for work.