Sentence examples for land the contract from inspiring English sources
Many had predicted that the bid anchored by Epic Systems, considered a titan in the medical-records field, would land the contract.
But five years ago, the acclaimed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was able to land the contract for the city's newest bridge, even with his reputation for modernism.
Joan is a minor architect striving to land the contract to design a memorial for two victims of the 2004 tsunami; her brother Chester hopes, after being injured during a prank reality show, to sue his way into a windfall.
Boeing, which is based in Chicago, has been eager to land the contract as a decline in orders from the ailing airline industry have hurt its commercial airline business.
She did not, she notes huffily, land the contract -- her first major office project -- because she happens to know the presidential confidant, Vernon Jordan, "socially" (though it didn't hurt).
So, why is Parker now entangled in contract negotiations when it is customary for chief executives to leave this work to others and only step in at the end to land the contract?
Blohm + Voss landed the contract for the Eclipse six years ago.
Wal-Mart's expertise in running a sophisticated $1.6bn£830m0m) sourcing operation in India landed the contract.
As the Press Association reports, Applied Language Solutions (ALS) was 8% off target from January to April this year after recently landing the contract.
Each time, he followed that up by saying that it would be nice if Infosys landed the contract.
