Sentence examples for decent contract from inspiring English sources

"I think they thought it would be difficult to win a favorable, decent contract at the time of expiration".

J. Duffy, the president of United Teachers Los Angeles, counters, "Our view of a decent contract is it will provide longevity of teaching staff".

He was frequently prepared to stick it to the Man too, falling out with Nike in 2014 over its reluctance to offer him what he thought was a decent contract.

The union voted to authorize a strike if a "fair and decent" contract agreement is not reached by March 3. (Photo by Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times).

Then South would have converted to three no-trump, a decent contract on the North-South hands that fails in practice if West leads a heart (or an unlikely spade, which would be chosen if East chanced a sporting double).

He's a craftsman, a marble carver; he used to work at the Acropolis, but the pay was terrible and you couldn't get a decent contract if you weren't in the right party.

And I also found it difficult to upgrade very good officers to decent contracts.

As a result, Johnny Cash records for a rock label, Dolly Parton is recording bluegrass for an independent label and many other pioneers and talented newcomers can't get a decent record contract.

The front office has unloaded virtually every veteran with a decent sized contract over these past few years, and has had the lowest payroll in the majors over the past two years.

Without the threat of competition, grain shippers are sceptical that the railways will negotiate decent service contracts: no firm has sought such an agreement under rights granted in legislation last year.Under pressure from Gerry Ritz, the agriculture minister and a farmer himself, the railways have promised to make more railcars available.

When the industry was privatised, the Conservative government twisted the arms of electricity generators to make sure that the mining companies had decent-sized contracts to supply coal to power stations.