Sentence examples for undercut contractors from inspiring English sources

Mr. Levy created the law, Mr. Smith said, because the county could not get federal authorities to enforce their law; he feared that businesses hiring undocumented immigrants for low wages would undercut contractors who follow the law.

Businesses could pore over them item-by-item in an effort to undercut established contractors.

The cutbacks forced consolidation among defense contractors and undercut innovation.

It became clear that the government had over-relied on the contractor and undercut its own institutions.

MR. HENKE: You make the statement in that third recommendation that the current heavy reliance on private contractors also undercuts progress towards unity of effort in the field.

Mr. Spitzer set up the task force after several labor leaders had complained that unionized trucking companies and construction contractors were being undercut by competitors that classified many of their employees as independent contractors.

In the interview, Lu Xinsheng said Chinese businessmen smuggle ivory and rhino horns out of the country and flood local markets with counterfeit goods while contractors constantly try to undercut each other, resulting in shoddy infrastructure projects.

It can undercut traditional equipment renters by 30% where contractors spend an average of $900,000 a year.

The trigger mechanism reassured the contractors that they would not be undercut by a large number of lower-paying contractors with nonunion workers.

The EDD decision is one of several rulings that appear to undercut how San Francisco-based Uber operates, relying on independent contractors to transport passengers.

Key cases against the Army Corps of Engineers, the architect and contractor for the failed levees, were undercut by successive court decisions that found the federal agency legally immune from liability.