Sentence examples for breakdown of contract from inspiring English sources

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After the breakdown of contract talks with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United Federation of Teachers sought yesterday to get state officials involved in settling the dispute.

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Leeds striker Luciano Becchio has submitted a formal transfer request following the breakdown of new contract talks.

This might include addressing the structural causes of a disaster to be found in social fragility, civil conflict, the breakdown of social contracts, corruption, poor governance, and human rights abuses (Manyena and Gordon 2015).

For Ms. Martin, all these questions are emblematic of "the breakdown of the host/guest contract," she said.

With foreclosures still increasing, Turner added that a growing number of desperate or disheartened borrowers were simply walking away from their near-worthless properties, risking "a complete breakdown of the social contract between banks and homeowners".

One of the most pervasive business trends of the past decade has been the rise of the "free agent", caused both by the breakdown of the social contract between companies and employees, and by the growing share in the workforce of knowledge workers with portable skills.

Brian Schwartz, a professor of physics at the City University of New York, says that in the 1970s as many as 5,000 physicists had to find jobs in other areas.In America the rise of PhD teachers' unions reflects the breakdown of an implicit contract between universities and PhD students: crummy pay now for a good academic job later.

His seeing, despite censure from ideologues, in the partition violence of 1947 the rapid breakdown of a social contract — something that was "not an aberration 4 in the region's history, and not a matter of "politics" alone — was indeed visionary, and makes him a writer of special interest for anyone who cares about Pakistan, where so many forms of random-seeming violence now crowd the news.

A few years back, a practice known as "bum fights" -- in which young adults would pay homeless men to brawl with each other, then post videos on the Internet -- shocked sentient adults for its cruelty, callousness and what it said about the breakdown of the social contract.

The United Nations Population Fund UNFPAA) warned that around 120,000 women could die in childbirth within the next year in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea because of the breakdown of healthcare and fears of contracting Ebola in hospital.

The league has again locked out its referees because of a breakdown in contract negotiations and will begin training some 60 replacements this weekend.

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