Sentence examples for volume contracts from inspiring English sources

These were variously called block contracts, sophisticated block contracts, cost and volume contracts, and cost per case contracts.

Although the price has fallen, the volume contracted by Ukraine has gone up.Unless Ukraine increases its gas prices and implements other reforms, the IMF will not restart lending.

"Our [carbonated soft drink] case volume contracted only slightly at a time when liquid refreshment beverages declined low single-digits," Young said in a statement.

"This is a large volume contract between a major seller and large buyer; we thus believe this would likely establish the market floor price and set the range for Chinese buyers," said UBS analyst Joe Dewhurst.

The patient appeared volume contracted, a point underscored by the increased creatinine and urea nitrogen values, as well as the orthostatic hypotension.

But increasingly major long-term and high-volume contracts have been linked to spot prices set by ICIS and other agencies.

Instead, they rely on two formidable sets of middlemen: a few giant group-purchasing organizations that negotiate high-volume contracts, and a few giant distributors that buy and store medical supplies and deliver them to hospitals.

Block contracts specified payment for a fixed volume of activity; cost-and-volume contracts allowed for payments to be withheld (or made) if volume levels were below (or surpassed) expectations; and cost-per-case contracts involved patient-specific payments.

Although guidance required NHS organisations to enter cost-and-volume contracts for most services, purchasers realised that there would be little possibility of holding providers accountable for non-performance and in consequence many of these contracts took a loose 'block' form.

Hypoalbuminemia, mostly in association with massive proteinuria, produces an increased interstitial fluid volume and a contracted intravascular volume contraction by a diminished oncotic pressure gradient, thus inducing renal sodium retention by activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system [ 25].

Export volumes contracted by 1.4% in the last quarter and by 2.9% in the year to the end of December.