Sentence examples for contract sector from inspiring English sources

"I don't think it'll do very much for the UK retail sector, but for that specialist contract sector it will be a godsend.

The typically staid, acronym-heavy government contracting sector also is getting into the act.

Anderson Group describes itself as "the UK's leading provider of support services to the recruitment and contracting sector".

And that would present a major challenge for the federal contracting sector, which has driven growth in the Washington economy.

The Purchasing Managers Index slipped from 51.3 to 51.0 in July, barely above the cut-off point that separates an expanding from a contracting sector.

And as the federal government has tightened spending, the state's government-contracting sector has not enjoyed the same boom times it once experienced.

People retire, and young people don't enter contracting sectors.

While those numbers are promising, regional economists and local officials are waiting to see what happens with budget sequestration, which could hit the D.C. area's federal contracting sectors hard -- particularly in Virginia.

Over the last four months, while the Nasdaq tumbled below 2000 and spending on technology spiraled downward, the contract manufacturing sector appeared unstoppable.

An index below 50 signals a contracting manufacturing sector, while a reading above 50 suggests expansion.

In the fourth quarter of 1996, the hitherto contracting manufacturing sector inched up 2.2% on the same period a year earlier.