Sentence examples for prominent contractor from inspiring English sources
The review recently undertaken by Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, resulted in the cancellation of part of the Future Combat Systems programme, a big army-modernisation project for which BAE is a prominent contractor.
The project, called The Big Dig, was racked by scandal, though; an investigation in 2003 by The Boston Globe blamed Bechtel (also a prominent contractor in Iraq) for over $1 billion in cost overruns.
In Edmonton, he would establish himself as a prominent contractor, building many notable early buildings of the town, and later city.
Obama's transition team announced that two other prominent contractors, Maureen Baginski and Robert Harding, would help lead the transition at the ODNI.
In Edmonton he would rise to be one of the city's most prominent contractors, constructing many of the city's landmark buildings, as well as houses for its prominent residents.
Yet a look at one prominent defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation, based in San Diego, suggests the importance of connections.
INSIDE: According to the listing agent (and current owner), this house was built in 1925 for a relative of a prominent paving contractor.
Jan Berdo, who was two years behind John at Washington High School, had grown up a "town girl," the daughter of a prominent building contractor.
That investigation sparked by Brown's disclosure has since broadened into an inquiry of campaign finance and ties linking a prominent D.C. contractor to local political leaders.
According to Janan and other Wardak officials, for instance, one prominent local contractor even gifted motorcycles to a Taliban unit to encourage them to attack the fuel convoys of competing contractors.
Since December, when Mr. Rowland admitted he had lied about work done to his Litchfield vacation cottage by people working for and doing business with the state, investigations into his relationships with prominent state contractors have heated up.
