8 sentences with 'contract'

Example sentences and phrases with the word contract and other words derived from it.

• « Jon Najamatsu currently has a two-year contract with the Van Cliburn Foundation, which provides the contest winner with a concert schedule and a recording contract. »
• « A return to work was arranged, while a whole new contract was negotiated. »
• « If Henry did not agree to that contract, she stated that she would not hesitate to leave it. »
• « Although the original contract stipulated that the tower was to be demolished twenty years after its inauguration, it stands there, unscathed by time and criticism, looking down from its imposing 300 metres on the recent history of France. »
• « Have you recently travelled? Travellers can contract all kinds of illnesses. »
• « The blood vessels in the skin contract instantly when a cut is made or pressure is applied. »
• « The blood vessels in the skin contract instantly when a cut is made or pressure is applied. In the case of a superficial cut of the skin, this mechanism serves to reduce blood loss. »
• « The background radiation from the Big Bang, discovered by the two New Jersey radio astronomers in 1965, caused concern because it had the same temperature (about 270°C. below zero) in all directions. This implied that the Big Bang was even and uniform. But Hawking and others had predicted that, in order for clouds of gas to form - which would then contract, cool and clump together under gravity - the explosion must have had fluctuations. »
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