Sentence examples for overseeing the contract from inspiring English sources

Worse yet was the government inspector overseeing the contract.

Other officials responsible for overseeing the contract failed to do so and did not know its basic terms.

Under Pentagon rules, responsibility for overseeing the contract rests with the Alaska native corporation and the Pentagon has no legal relationship with either Vance or Wackenhut.

A White House statement said federal mediators overseeing the contract talks had requested the appointment of a presidential emergency board, which would extend the current cooling-off period that is preventing a walkout for an additional 60 days.

Mr. Smith was replaced suddenly by the brass in overseeing the contract and the Pentagon took the unusual step of second-guessing its own auditors by hiring an outside contractor to reconsider the claims from KBR.

There is no lawyer, overseeing the contract.

One email written from a KBR manager told Unaoil to concentrate its efforts on "a good spaghetti house" and "a little shashlick". The code refers respectively to the officials from Italian company Eni and the Kazakh government who were overseeing the contracts KBR wanted to win.

Speaking outside Washington to a conference of potential bidders, retired Rear Adm. David Nash, head of the office overseeing the contracts process, said U.S. authorities would answer critics' charges of cronyism by offering regular public disclosures and would hire six private project managers to help ensure efficiency in the rebuilding effort.

The initial price was based on "drive-by estimating," said Richard V. Dowling, a spokesman for the corps, which oversees the contract.

He negotiated the deal himself and paid the lawyer Johnnie Cochran $500 an hour to oversee the contract.

In Houston he also oversaw the contract extension of Hans Graf, the music director, and dealt with the aftermath of a strike.