Sentence examples for single contractor from inspiring English sources
With the work being done by a single contractor in the North, the outbreak of the Civil War had little effect on the completion of the dome.
Air Force Secretary Whitten Peters, in recent Congressional testimony, said the Pentagon was concerned that "given the current state of the defense industry, going to a single contractor at this time could effectively leave us with a single contractor for many years".
His theory, to crudely summarize it, was that businesses that once relied on a single contractor for the content they needed could now turn to the crowd for cheaper, more varied alternatives, instead.
New York spends around $2 billion a year on preschool for children with disabilities, yet the State Education Department has not visited and audited a single contractor involved in the program since 2007, the state comptroller's office has found.
We will no longer have a single contractor to carry out all our internal audits, instead we will seek partnerships with specialists to look more accurately at different areas of the business.
On site, Mehta, the secretary and a single contractor are the only three women out of 120 people, but she says: "The fact that we have one female operative is pretty significant.
Goldin also revealed that space shuttle operations would be turned over to a single private contractor.
The most recent privatization effort was creating a single major contractor for shuttle business, the United Space Alliance, owned equally by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
(After squandering countless hours trying to straighten this out, our architects said that next time they would prefer a single general contractor).
The broadcaster has decided the cleanest solution would be to hand all regional news provision in England to a single "master contractor", rather than dividing the country up between different providers.
Yet, despite these incidents, and although 64 US soldiers have been court-martialled on murder-related charges, not a single armed contractor has been prosecuted for any crime, let alone a crime against an Iraqi.
