Sentence examples for contract costly from inspiring English sources

Our findings noted long waitlists to access government-funded home care packages to assist with home and garden maintenance services which led some to contract costly private vendors.

Crowds of workers would stand idle while the contractor sought the plant owner's authorization to deviate from the procedures specified in the contract — a costly proposition at a site with 500 workers paid collectively "$30,000 to $50,000 an hour," said John A. Christian, president of the Commercial Services subsidiary of EnergySolutions.

Our first hypothesis states that performance-based contracts are costly to implement and will emerge as optimal only when agency conflicts are severe.

Now most of them are locked into contracts for costly projects like bridges and schools that they can no longer easily afford.

He does not mention the numerous subsidies, in the form of research grants, sweetheart resource extraction contracts and costly foreign policy interventions, that have benefited fossil fuels for decades.

The margin requirement makes the futures contracts much more costly than option contracts, but their use also shows just how eager Mr. Badin was to get his hands on as many shares of Smithfield as possible.

Cashman, who could be blamed for the costly contract, viewed the matter philosophically.

Meanwhile, South Africa is haggling with a firm it accuses of having pushed it into an unnecessarily costly contract.

The Redskins released cornerback DeAngelo Hall before free agency but later re-signed him to a less costly contract.

Second, we show that if credit derivative markets are opaque then banks cannot commit to terminal-date risk exposure, and therefore the optimal signaling contract is more costly.

And just days ago, the majors were forced into accepting humiliating and costly contract renegotiations by Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela.