Sentence examples for contracts amount from inspiring English sources

Such contracts amount to an educated bet on future prices.

The 40 contracts amount to 75percentt of the long-term deals the Davis administration wants to make.

Consultant contracts amount to $21 million, but that mostly means environmental experts who check to make sure noise regulations are being followed.

The contracts amount to the world's largest single deal for new solar energy capacity, said officials from the utility, Southern California Edison, and BrightSource Energy, the company that would build and run the plants.

The costs of the proposed contracts amount to nearly $200 million over seven years, including proposed 22percentt pay increases for the police officers and detectives who are already among the highest paid in the nation.

Concerns that zero-hours contracts amount to an attack on the terms and conditions of low paid and younger workers were compounded yesterday by speculation that the government plans to cut the minimum wage following a review by the Low Pay Commission.

HOUSTON, Jan . 1(UPI)— Zapata Norness, Inc., announced yesterday it had obtained new offshore drilling contracts amounting to about $8‐million.

Russia's ambassador in Tripoli — later recalled by Mr. Medvedev — protested that endangering the contracts amounted to "a betrayal of Russia's interests".

In two landmark cases, the English courts have ruled that restrictions in sportsmen's contracts amounted to unreasonable restraints of trade.

"We're relationship-driven, and we're proud of it," Mr. Norcross said, noting that the bank's government contracts amounted to 10percentto12percentcent of its overall business.

The total contracts amounted to more than $36M during the course of the scheme, Mattress Firm alleged.