Sentence examples for contracts against from inspiring English sources

Western companies have struggled to compete for contracts against well-financed Chinese rivals.

And you can then exploit this data to development models and write insurance contracts against the risk of drought.

Akamai said the acquisition would help it compete for contracts against larger managed-services vendors like AT&T.

Last week the league proposed an immediate 50-50 revenue split with the players, with a provision to preserve existing contracts against rollbacks.

If it judges that a "credit event" has taken place, then payouts will be triggered on credit-default swaps (CDSs), insurance contracts against default on government bonds.

That day, more than 200,000 put contracts against Lehman were sold, up 49percentt from recent typical Lehman put trading.

Under certain physiological conditions, the muscle does not produce any mechanical power in spite of active cross-bridge cycles, such as during isometric contractions (without length changes), equivalent to isovolumetric contraction in a cardiac muscle contracting against closed valves.

So, when the voluntary contraction is stopped, the muscle is even more inhibited from contracting against a subsequent stretch.

(2) They contract against blows to form a rigid protective wall for the viscera.

Interventions: The left quadriceps were stimulated to contract against an isokinetic load (resisted) while the right quadriceps contracted against gravity (unresisted) for 1 hour a day, 5 days a week, for 24 weeks.

In France, single contractors, managed by officials, bid to manage the contract against closely benchmarked costs.