Sentence examples for the major contract from inspiring English sources

And then there were the major contract employees.

The administration has been accused of bias since it restricted the competition for the major contract to reconstruct Iraq to a handful of companies.

The major contract wins are a welcome boost for the company, which faced a weakened outlook at the end of last year when the end of its 2012 Olympics contract coincided with declining military work and doubts over contract extensions in Japan, prompting two profit warnings in two months.

As American forces stormed into Iraq in March 2003, Halliburton's role as an inside planner put it in place to receive, without open competition and in the shrouds of classified war planning, the major contract to carry out the oil strategy it secretly wrote months earlier.

The bidding for the major contract still was a year away.

Mr. Githongo had disclosed publicly that huge sums were being awarded to phoney companies and that business cronies of leading Kenyan politicians were given all the major contracts.

Spokesmen for many of the major contracting companies declined to comment on the change in legal status in Iraq, while others said it was premature to predict the impact.

In terms of value, the Norwegian taxi industry had a turnover of approximately €1.1 billion in 2013.1 Overall, approximately half of this was contract work, the major contracting partners being the different health corporations.

Given the large economic interests that lay behind such programs, such as the revenues of betting agencies and the major contracts of the show participants, it is obvious that this situation can lead to a number of undesirable outcomes.

After a series of high-level Pentagon meetings in 2002, the Army got a green light to give Boeing the major contracts for both JTRS and Future Combat Systems.

This official said Mr. Hanley had stalled to ensure that D.C. 37 -- which is not able to make as strong a case for raises as the teachers and police -- would sign the first major contract in the hope of setting a low wage pattern for other unions.