Sentence examples for contracts set aside from inspiring English sources

The decision threatens to disrupt an astonishing growth arc that was fueled in large part by contracts set aside for small businesses.

The company received more than $2.5 billion from federal agencies last year and won defense contracts set aside for small businesses as recently as last month.

He tells of the family of recent Cuban immigrants with a $500m fortune who won American government contracts set aside for disadvantaged minorities, and of how preferential policies in Nigeria and Sri Lanka caused ethnic polarisation and, eventually, civil war.

This is a program intended to help small, disadvantaged businesses — particularly those owned by minorities — by providing business training coupled with opportunities for no-bid contracts set aside just for them.

Eyak is what's known as an Alaska Native Corporation, and with that designation, it is able to compete for contracts set aside for companies that participate in the S.B.A.'s 8(a) program.

And they feel so in part (in their own assessment) because of government help to the disadvantaged: the contracts set aside for minorities; the affirmative action that works against their college-bound children; the taxes they pay while others seem to them to enjoy unemployment and its checks.

An example: the contract set aside two hours per month for teacher meetings, previously used to discuss mundane school business.

He neither identified the firms nor revealed the amount of the contract set aside, apparently because his decision is now subject to appeal.

Re "Reports Find Errors and Fraud in Small Business Administration Contracts" (Business Day, July 24): Congress has required that 23percentt of all federal contracts be set aside for small businesses, but a dozen Fortune 500 corporations received Interior Department contracts that were listed as going to small businesses.

The contracts would set aside money for a two-year study of a pay structure favored by advertisers, under which actors would be paid based on a commercial's ratings instead of the number of times shown.

Ashok Malik, a columnist sympathetic to Mr Modi, observed this week that the most "lucrative" ministries those most vulnerable to the corrupt because they dish out licences or contracts—are set aside for ministers whose ethics are beyond reproach.The most senior new appointments this week suggest Mr Malik could be right.