Sentence examples for contract area from inspiring English sources

In a surprise move this May, China became the first country to apply for a contract area in international waters to prospect for massive sulphide ore.

Let's have cooler heads prevail.' It was in that context that once again the owners said: "We're going to make another bold move — [turns to Bill Daly and says, "If I get any of this wrong tell me, because you were in the room and I wasn't] – we're going to give up some of the things that are important to us, such as in the player contract area.

The Guardian was told of the routine overnight report prepared for management each morning, which says that on the night of Saturday/Sunday 10/11 November, owing to staff shortages, for most of the night only one advanced nurse practitioner was exclusively designated to assess the seriousness of calls from patients to the out of hours service for the whole of Harmoni's London contract area.

The Company holds a 100% interest in the Cheleken Contract Area, offshore Turkmenistan.

As the length of nanobranches increased, more contract area was provided for the deposition of CdS quantum dots.

The Cheleken Contract Area covers approximately 950 square kilometers (235,000 acres) and comprises two offshore oil and gas fields, Dzheitune (Lam) and Dzhygalybeg (Zhdanov).

The justice secretary said that many of those bidding to run probation services in 26 contract areas were partnerships between the private and public sectors.

Partnerships between private companies and voluntary sector organisations will be invited to bid to take over the supervision of all low- and medium-risk offenders in 21 contract areas.

The justice ministry has said "appropriate arrangements" could be made, such as having the chief inspector withdraw from inspections of the six contract areas that cover the parts of northern England and East Anglia run by his wife's company.

Steven C. Grundman, a former deputy under secretary of defense who now works for Charles River Associates, a consulting firm in Boston, said growing contract areas, like surveillance, could offer competition among ground-based, air-based and space-based platforms.

The frequency of antral contractions was defined as the number of contractions during a 25-minute interval, recorded per five minutes, and the antral contractions were defined as one time while the maximal contraction-induced reduction of the antral area (difference between relaxed and contracted area) as a fraction of the relaxed area (Δ A/ A) > 50% as our previous study [ 11].