"Contract among" can be used in written English, typically in legal or formal contexts.
It is often used to refer to an agreement or a set of terms that have been mutually agreed upon by two or more parties. Example: The contract among the partners clearly stated that all profits would be evenly distributed among them.
Have any of the celebrated neoconservatives read Rousseau lately, who envisaged a grand social contract among citizens?
So testimony and cross-examinations have focused on what was said and what was not -- within the lengthy contract, among executives across the negotiating table and to reporters.
But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows 'the same' concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings.
Cage is remembered most widely for some of his dogma-flouting notions about what constitutes music, how it should be produced and whose volition — if anyone's — should take precedence in the contract among a composer, a performer and a listener.
Articulated by Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, this ideology sets out a cold contract among individuals to form the state: the individual surrenders part of his liberty to purchase security, which it is the sovereign's job to determine.
For now, this recognition faces strong competition from patriotic impulses, rooted in a social contract among nationals who have paid taxes over the years or performed military service to build or defend what they saw as exclusively theirs.
Critics of the contracting process say it would be unfair to divide $104 million in Maximus contracts among other winning vendors.
Contracts among fighters, managers, promoters and television outlets are unregulated and are often written to exploit young athletes.
A series of contracts among Motorola, Nokia and Telsim culminated in a $1.5 billion loan from Motorola in February 2000.
The Senate voted last week to investigate whether Petrobras had avoided tax payments and awarded illegal contracts, among other issues.
In Cordato's view, "any freely made contracts among consenting adults should be legal," including those involving prostitution and the sale of dangerous drugs.
