Sentence examples for public contractors from inspiring English sources

A municipality hiring public contractors may not discriminate against blacks or in favor of them; it cannot discriminate a little bit each way and then plead "play in the joints" when hauled into court.

Regarding the increase of public revenue, Gaius put the publicani (public contractors, hitherto chiefly concerned with army and building contracts and with farming minor taxes) in charge of the main tax of Asia a rich province formed out of Attalus' inheritance, which would henceforth provide Rome with the major part of its income.

He suspects the Web site is the work of enemies he has made in Hudson County politics as he has fought against pay-to-play — the practice in New Jersey of extracting campaign donations from public contractors — and politicians holding more than one public job.

Peña Nieto will try to show to the world that his administration can, and will be, tough on crime (never mind the Grupo Higa scandal, in which the president was cleared of charges that he improperly purchased property from public contractors, or the "historical truth" – the administration's shifting story – concerning the missing Ayotzinapa students).

There are all manner of public contractors who routinely give large contributions to candidates with the expectation of favored treatment.

Publican, Latin Publicanus, plural Publicani, ancient Roman public contractor, who erected or maintained public buildings, supplied armies overseas, or collected certain taxes, particularly those supplying fluctuating amounts of revenue to the state (e.g., tithes and customs).

Mr. Mitchell's legal odyssey raises questions about how such prolonged legal proceedings are best handled and whether a public contractor has a legal right to annoy his bosses — in this case, the City of San Francisco — and continue to get work.

Increasingly, it is the government that has become a public contractor--for private corporations--to provide security, with public money--by tracking environmental activists.

Gould frequently travelled due to his job as a public contractor, and consequently turned out for a number of other sides during his career, including the clubs Richmond and London Welsh, and the county side Middlesex.

He pledged to use the Illinois attorney general's office as a vehicle to fight corruption, financial crimes, gangs, Medicaid, corporate and public contractor fraud, and bolster more training, federal funding and partnerships between police, prosecutors and schools.

That basic truth is why public service contractors never sound entirely credible.