Sentence examples for private tender from inspiring English sources

Its forwardness establishes the fundamental equipoise of the French Baroque: Rameau, brilliant and imposing; Couperin, wistful, private, tender, heartbreaking.

So in the spirit of the late Elizabethan age, would it not be appropriate now to put her office out to private tender?

Within the next few months, the government plans to offer a private tender for a new service between Santiago and Melipilla, a town 60km south-west of the capital.

The entrance to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, which was built in the 1970s under a private tender but reverted to government control in 1999, is permanently gridlocked, partly thanks to tolls that are too low, especially at peak hours.

Some GP surgeries could lose up 15 per cent of their income from April, as health commissioning groups prepare put minor surgery and other services out to private tender.

The project has been controversial because it was awarded to Pacific Century, which is now the city's largest phone company, through a private tender instead of through the land auction system on which Hong Kong usually relies.

As the auction ended, two Mercedes fire engines, a trove of chandeliers and ornamental lampposts and simulators for a Comanche attack helicopter, an Airbus A340 and a Formula One racing car were still available through private tenders.

In addition, the study identifies critical conditions for the uptake in climate services: (1) a coordinated delivery of data, information, expertise and training by public research institutes concerned with climate change and its impacts; (2) the inclusion of adaptation in the regulation and in public and private tenders.

Humans have long enjoyed secret communions with sound, and headphones allow for the development of a particularly private and tender relationship.

The look of Vincent Ferrané's new series, "Milky Way," which documents his wife breast-feeding their infant child, is somewhere between that of fashion photography and of amateur home snapshots: starkly composed, brightly lit scenes present a world deeply private and tender — a mother and baby joined repeatedly in the act of nourishment, as the father looks on, present but apart.

Do we really want an NHS that is obsessed with private companies tendering for the work?