Sentence examples for global contracting from inspiring English sources

Albert J. Stanley, former chairman and chief executive of KBR, the global contracting concern that was once a subsidiary of Halliburton, was sentenced in February to 30 months in prison for a scheme to bribe Nigerian authorities in return for contracts to build liquefied natural gas facilities.

The reigning king of that global contracting business, Terry Gou, climbs to No. 1 on Forbes's list of Taiwan's Richest with a fortune estimated at $5.9 billion.

Conclusion and future works are presented in Section 7. The IFS theory is proposed by Barnsley, who suggested that, instead of storing all the pixels of the still image, we can keep only a collection of global contracting transformations such as rotation and contrast scaling [15].

A global contract publication movement is a simple idea that doesn't require a vast new international bureaucracy to oversee.

By awarding a single global contract, it would have given the winner a toehold in the loser's monopoly territory.

Singapore-based Flextronics, one of the largest global contract manufacturers, built factories there, initially to make small consumer electronics.

TSMC -- a flagship of Taiwan's technology economy with revenue last year of nearly $6 billion and the pacesetter for global contract microchip makers -- cannot afford to stand still.

The nature of its own offerings—not a customer's desire for volume discounts or global contracts—should be the first factor a supplier considers when contemplating GAM.

In recent months, big customers such as GM and Boeing have started pushing suppliers of aluminium and steel to sign unusually long-term global contracts, often including clauses agreeing year-on-year price decreases for materials.

The drawback is that this approach leaves lots of room for disagreement between the global account manager and the national operations, and also among the national operations which can make negotiating and implementing a global contract difficult.

In the international realm, we seem to believe that our claim to national sovereignty allows us to operate unilaterally -- America first and foremost, not together or in conformity with a global contract.