Sentence examples for may be contracted from inspiring English sources

Services formerly provided by government may be contracted out.

The disease may be contracted by eating tainted meat and has an incubation period of six to eight years.

In other countries the United States, for example—processing may be contracted out to a specialist supplier.

In some instances, including species of Carex such as the Southeast Asian C. scaposa and species of Mapania, the leaves may be contracted into a false petiole.

Some 1,201,607 people backed a change of the 1937 constitution to enshrine in the section titled The Family an amendment that "marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex".

The referendum on Friday is actually on an amendment to the Irish Constitution, which will read, "Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex".

Factory output, however, may be contracting: the ISM's manufacturing index fell to 48.5 in October, from 49.5 in September.

20 Jan-19 Feb The global economic system may be contracting, but your 'scope insists that controlled expansion is your goal this spring.

The shutdown in the oil industry, which government opponents say has greatly reduced exports, is costing upward of $70 million a day, while economists say the internal economy may be contracting by $250 million daily.

However, this year's weak summer travel season and slower than expected consumption of crude may be contracting that cycle.

Space may be contracting and expanding in two perpendicular directions, but the amount that the detector responds will be dependent on the wave's orientation.