Sentence examples for effort to contract from inspiring English sources

Presumably, by agreeing to end the effort to contract the Expos, Major League Baseball elicited some concession from the union.

This new rocket was part of Nasa's effort to contract out "routine" cargo resupply to the International Space Station.

Thousands of people were attracted, but problems soon arose, as the lots were sold without provision for public services, and private efforts to contract for needed services were not satisfactory.

But the subcommittee members continued to hammer him, asking why he had not taken action earlier to deal with the challenges faced by wounded soldiers and wondered whether recent efforts to contract out services to civilians had left the hospital depleted.

Mr. James contended that New Directions had spread misinformation in an effort to get the contract voted down.

The announcement of the strike plans is the latest step in the effort to get a contract for 7,000 day care workers at 360 city-financed centers.

Mr. Vavilov sued the Plaza last fall in an effort to get out of a contract to buy two penthouse apartments spread over three floors for a total of $53.5 million, and to recover $10.7 million in deposits.

If it was passed, lobbyists would have to report the money spent on efforts to get contracts from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for subway cars or from the State Board of Elections for voting machines, to name a very few contracts worth an awful lot of money.

"What we've been experiencing over the last one-and-a-half to two years, frankly, has been extraordinarily destabilizing," said Sean Stackley, a Navy assistant secretary, noting that the uncertainty was unraveling efforts to cut contracting costs.

Despite his efforts to get a contract, Mr. Otis said he was satisfied with life away from the road and the studio.

Halfhearted efforts to get a contract for a biography of Dostoyevsky (declined by a New York publisher) or go to law school (rejected by Yale) led her full circle back to activism as a community organizer with Students for a Democratic Society in Cleveland.