Sentence examples for contractual practices from inspiring English sources

Small margins, just-in-time delivery clauses, unfair contractual practices and the need to squeeze profit at every level create conditions whereby some businesses can barely survive, making the food market highly dysfunctional, except for those corporate actors that are able to influence the structure of these markets.

"Mandatory Arbitration for Customers But Not for Peers: A Study of Arbi" by Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller et al. We conducted a study of contractual practices by well-known firms marketing consumer products, comparing the firms' consumer contracts with contracts the same firms negotiated with business peers.

"They need to look at all their contractual practices to make sure they are living up not only to the letter of the law but also the spirit of the law in terms of conflict of interest," Moreno said.

The lawsuit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court alleges that Sutter engaged in "anticompetitive contractual practices" and that it charged prices for hospital healthcare services that far exceed what it would have been able to charge in a competitive market.

The lawsuit filed Friday in San Francisco County Superior Court alleges that Sutter Health engaged in "anticompetitive contractual practices" and that it charged prices for hospital healthcare services that far exceed what the company would have been able to charge in a competitive market.

For Switzerland, this is an invitation to experiment with alternatives to today's economic and contractual practice.

For McDonald's, this would mean reviewing labor practices, contractual arrangements with governments and criteria for assessing business partners for their possible impacts.

These 'leaps' were justified by GPs because they were part of the practices' contractual issues and related to financial incentives.

The costs of replacing staff time (clinical and administrative) are the most obvious early obstacle to PPDPs and it is unlikely, under current contractual arrangements, that practices will hold collaborative multidisciplinary workshops in work time unless some of the opportunity costs are met, at least to some extent.

Reliance on imported biomass is seen to be necessary in the short-term to meet UK and EU sustainable biofuels targets; however, even where there is a desire to change this practice, contractual terms may result in longer-term lock-in (industry stakeholder interview, 31 October 2011), an issue that would remain relevant for 2G feedstocks where these too are globally traded.

"I told him that we have sought an explanation from the company by Feb. 22 to examine if the contractual provisions on unethical practices and the Integrity Pact have been violated," he said.