Sentence examples for in past contracts from inspiring English sources

In past contracts, it has agreed to provisions that restrict the market, like the six-year wait before free agency.

He described new contract negotiations as going nowhere since the county's latest offer will "gut" the protection of 207c along with other benefits obtained in past contracts.

Mr. Hoge has been saying for months that he is determined "to regain management control of manufacturing and distribution operations" - a dramatic shift in the balance of power toward management and a very different approach than was taken in past contracts.

The second proposal, which the union is considering, would increase wages to $15 an hour by 2021 in exchange for scaling back overtime, holiday pay, and employment and scheduling protections agreed upon in past contracts with Disney.

The fact that the ILWU, which represents 30 ports along the U.S. and Canadian Pacific coasts and in Panama, agreed to automation in past contracts is often contrasted with the stance of the International Longshoremen's Assn., which represents East Coast dockworkers.

But both sides said there was much work to be done, with the negotiations more divisive than in past contract talks.

At this stage in past contract talks, bargainers in Detroit have worked around the clock, often for 36 hours or more without a break, using the momentum of their discussions as a force to carry them to a conclusion.

"In past contract negotiations, when the city wouldn't pay its police what they deserved, in return the control of the adjudicatory processes was turned over to the F.O.P.," said Stefan Presser, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

Unlike in past contract talks, the union does not have a toll-free number for chapter presidents to call for updates to pass along to members, nor have negotiators faxed or sent by e-mail any material to print in local newsletters or post on Web sites.

The contemporary genetic sectors in Iberian F. ceranoides are more likely to result from the regional reassembly of vicariant phylogroups into their current distributions following a period of independent, mostly allopatric divergence in past contracted areas of occurrence.

In the past, contracts for delivery of crude months or years ahead (what Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has poetically called "distant futures") usually stayed low and stable even if the spot price shot up because of some short-term disruption.