Sentence examples for contracts for delivery from inspiring English sources

Withdrawal of prison education calls into question both this government's capacity to award contracts for delivery of essential services and its commitment to rehabilitation.

The charts show what has happened this year, focusing on futures contracts for delivery of oil and natural gas in February, at the height of the winter.

Futures contracts for delivery of live cattle in February fell the maximum one-day amount, 3 cents per pound, on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, closing at 86.175 cents per pound.

Roger Diwan, of PFCEnergy, a consultancy, points out that contracts for delivery more than a year away now make up almost half of all oil futures traded, up from around 20% in 2002.

In the past, contracts for delivery of crude months or years ahead (what Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has poetically called "distant futures") usually stayed low and stable even if the spot price shot up because of some short-term disruption.

In the future markets (FM) participants buy and sell bilateral contracts for delivery of energy on a specified future date.

The contract for delivery in December closed at $3.44¾ a bushel, up 11¼ cents.

Gold rose, however, with the contract for delivery in August up $7.70, at $1,217.70 an ounce.

The price of the gold contract for delivery in April gained $23.10, to $313 a troy ounce.

Aside from reducing hours, the Postal Service said it would also explore merging offices that are close to one another or contracting for delivery directly to homes and businesses.

Fearing that electricity producers would try to cut their losses by reducing output, on December 10th the government ordered that coal contracted for delivery to energy companies in 2011 must not be sold at a higher price than last year.