In December 2009, Silverstone signed a last-minute 17-year deal with F1's boss Bernie Ecclestone to prevent the British GP from being cancelled after Leicestershire's Donington Park circuit failed to honour a contract to host the race.
The brilliant left-hander said earlier this month that he would not honour a contract he had with Somerset, so as to make himself available for the West Indies side, despite his ongoing dispute with West Indies Cricket Board.
Bayern's sporting director, Matthias Sammer, has insisted that the player will first honour a contract that does not expire until the summer of 2015, and then sign another – though others in Munich were less conciliatory.
The race's future has been thrown into doubt after the government of Belgium's south Walloon region faced being forced to fork out millions to honour a contract for the event at Spa-Francorchamps.
There has to be a consequence and when one side fails to honour a contract "you renegotiate", they said.
Even if Conte stays to honour a contract that runs to 2015, he says that the chance to test himself elsewhere in Europe is a long-standing ambition.
In the final months of 1894, Robey returned to London to honour a contract for Augustus Harris at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the details of which are unknown.
Off the field, Miller was dogged by speculation as to whether he would honour a contract he had signed with Rawtenstall Cricket Club in the English Lancashire League, which would have ended his Test career.
It also found that in some government departments no one could say which civil servant, if any, was in charge of making sure that an outsourcing firm was honouring a particular contract.
Besides market risks, Goldman also assesses credit risks, based on whether a counterparty might default on a loan or fail to honour a derivative contract, and liquidity risk.
