Sentence examples for the contract reached from inspiring English sources

Early voting on the contract, reached Oct. 10 after a six-hour strike, is mixed.

For example, he made his bullish bet on cattle futures after witnessing the skittishness of local ranchers when the contract reached a record high over the summer -- and, of course, before the tumble last week that was related to concern over mad cow disease in the United States.

The trading volume of the contract reached 90.1 billion rubles ($3 billion) in terms of notional value by the end of the trading session, according to RTS.

The contracts reached by District Council 37, which represents 121,000 workers in 56 union locals, have often set a pattern for all of the city's unions, and the council's last contract expired June 30 , 2002

Thus many of the airlines that had hedged their fuel consumption when oil prices were higher built up huge notional debts to banks, even though no money was due to change hands until the contracts reached the end of their lives, by which time oil prices could have risen again.

As the contracts reach the end of their three-year terms, the city said it has paid out roughly $148 million.

The terms of the proposed contract reached between the Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school system, and the Chicago Teachers Union represented areas of gain and retreat for each side.

The current contract, reached three years ago, minutes after the previous one expired, gave the workers annual raises of slightly more than 4percentt, which many budget experts say set the pattern for city workers.

The current contract, reached in December 1999, gave the union increases of 5percentt in the first year, 3percentt in the second and 4percentt in the third.

Officials with the union, 1199/SEIU, said the deal, the first union contract reached at the hospital, would provide annual raises of 3percentt for the first four years and a wage reopener in the fifth year.

That is down from a 12-year high of $37.83 for the benchmark contract reached on March 12 just after the United States Energy Department announced a decline in inventories and a week before the war in Iraq; the last time the benchmark closed higher was in October 1990 during the Persian Gulf war when Iraq's occupation of Kuwait cut off exports from both countries.