Sentence examples for contracting sector from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

While consumer confidence plunged in the latter half of last year, the ISM Survey of the manufacturing sector is only mildly negative at 47.7 (any reading below 50 indicates a contracting manufacturing sector).

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.

"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 best-performing sector was the public [government] sector, contracting by 0.8%.

4. Develop alternative service delivery systems (e.g. partnerships with private sector, contracting out to private for profit or not-for-profit sector).

This abandoned tender exercise points to some deeper seated malaises in public sector contracting.

Amyas Morse, the head of the NAO, said: "Contracting with private sector providers is a fast-growing and important part of delivering public services.

Contracting in private sector is promoted in developing countries facing human resources shortages as a challenge to reduce maternal mortality.