Sentence examples for contract broken from inspiring English sources

Further, as Lon Fuller and William Perdue pointed out in an influential 1939 article "The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages", the damages awarded by courts to those who have had a promise or contract broken is best understood as being proportional to the harm the plaintiff suffered in relying on the promise.

Talks on a new contract broke down on Nov. 30.

Economic problems persisted, unemployment rose and the social contract broke down.

The strike, involving 3,300 workers, began last weekend after talks on a new labor contract broke down.

• The Coventry City striker Noel Whelan has been transfer-listed after talks on a new contract broke down yesterday.

The complaint charges that the N.F.L. twice sent letters to officials that "contained inaccurate, false and incomplete information" after talks about a new contract broke down this month.

Dorsey Levens, the Packer halfback who parlayed his 44-day holdout into a $25 million contract, broke his right leg in Green Bay's 23-15 victoverover Tampa Bay on Sunday.

BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 N.F.L. Locks Out Officials Replacement officials will be used for the final preseason games after talks on a new contract broke off.

Negotiations on a new teachers' contract broke off today with the two sides saying they were still far apart on some issues.

WASHINGTON — The National Football League, which last year had revenues of more than $9 billion as America's most popular sport, was plunged into deep uncertainty Friday when negotiations between owners and players for a new contract broke off.

It sits on ten wooded acres on the edge of town and offers plentiful firewood, but its remoteness leaves him vulnerable to bandits as the social contract breaks down and police forces, working with reduced budgets, become more thinly stretched.