Sentence examples for securing a contract for from inspiring English sources
When the strike began on Oct. 24, 1999, Mr. Hoffa said repeatedly that unionizing Overnite and securing a contract for most of its 13,000 workers were among his main goals.
The show was a hit, and Graham saw his future path, eventually securing a contract for open dates at the Fillmore.
Securing a contract for a defense company in one's home district or getting a grant to build a new port are tried and true measures of securing voter support.
The following year, O'Connor secured a contract for "Wise Blood," with Holt, Rinehart.
Already a dedicated Modernist, he secured a contract for a town house for the southeast corner of Sutton Place and 58th Street.
That's a novel I'd like to see, but in this publishing environment it's easier to secure a contract for a cultural-history-slash-memoir.
Specifically, the film's subject is the competition, filled with intrigue and blackmail, to secure a contract for a pipeline that will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.
He secured a contract for the largest building he had yet done, a two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar school of business and management in Moscow (of all places), which was completed, on time and under budget, in 2010.
Day care workers and directors are planning a one-day strike Wednesday at the 360 centers financed by New York City because they have not been able to secure a contract for more than two years.
It announced that in 1986, the Bofors unit of Nobel Industries Sweden AB, the largest arms manufacturer in Sweden, had agreed to pay kickbacks to senior Indian officials and defense personnel to secure a contract for field guns, and had already paid a total of nearly $5 million into an account in Switzerland.
Television reports in France and Germany have suggested that the payment of large sums to secure a contract for Elf in eastern Germany were prompted by former President Francois Mitterrand of France as a way to help Mr. Kohl, who fought a bitter campaign for re-election in 1994.
