Hume says, "The practice of contracting debts will almost invariably be abused by every government.
Sir Robert Peel, in 1844, having become convinced of the dangerous and disastrous influence, expanding and contracting its loans, secured the enactment of a law to regulate and limit its circulation.
Now, I repeat, there is too much laxity about contracting debts and too little conscience about the necessity of paying for what we use.
The fact of the matter is, dear brethren, that there is too much laxity of conscience among our people on this question of contracting debts, of borrowing money, of running up bills with little or no hope of ever paying them.
Confession will not relieve them of their obligation, and they must begin at once and make an effort to lessen the debts they owe in the past and learn a lesson in economy and strive against contracting new burdens.
This treaty contains reservations of all questions involving the vital interests, the independence or the honour of the contracting parties.
For the past twenty-five years the father has been prominently identified with the building and contracting business, ranking very high in connection with building operations in Milwaukee.
He also branched out into general contracting and built many of the best residences in Walla Walla during the '70s.
Shortly afterward, however, he took up contracting and building on his own account and was prominently identified with building operations for eight years.
Still later he went to Sioux City, Iowa, where he took up the business of contracting and building.
As early as his fourteenth year, however, he became an assistant to his father in the contracting and building business and at the same time he began his studies as an architectural draftsman.
He was able to realize what had been the golden dream of administrations since the birth of the Republic, the contracting of a foreign loan.
The contracting parties informed me that no bonds were then selling in the market and that in New York they were a trifle below par.
Inform the contracting parties and accept no new subscriptions.
If they were not at par with coin it was the fault of the government and not of the debtor, or, rather, it was the result of unforseen stringency not contemplated by the contracting parties.
I at once informed the contracting parties of what you had written in reference to the strikes and riots at home.
Noblemen and gentlemen contracting for seven years allowed a handsome discount.
We behold Captain Tarradiddle, as one of the high contracting parties' ambassador, taking lodgings in a house exactly opposite to that in which Miss Mayley resides.
Richard, with a slight frown once more contracting his brow; "what news of Master Landais?
There is a cold parchment, contracting in marriage one Iola St. Leger to one Arnold Lord Fulmer.
It was not a gradual and painless extinction, but a death of great suffering, for it led to agonizing cramps, knotting the muscles, and contracting the limbs.
When two contracting parties make an exchange through the medium of money, the price is the expression of the exchange value in money.
The mockery in Bessy's voice seemed to pass into her features, hardening and contracting them as frost shrivels a flower.
Do you know what his objection was to the legislative bodies of the contracting parties having representation on the assembly?
You stated, if I recall your testimony correctly, that when the proposition was made that the legislative bodies of the contracting parties should have representation in the assembly, the President objected to that?
But at this moment matrimonial alliances of more political importance occurred to each of the high contracting parties, and in this very year Donna Leonora was married to King Pedro IV.
The contracting parties employed in their negotiations one Aminchand, a Calcutta merchant of considerable wealth, great address, unbounded cunning, and absolutely without a conscience.
Through this space, between the parts, the contracting persons passed in order to ratify the covenant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contracting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
